A?“radical” improvement in collaboration between African universities is needed to avoid South African domination of 바카라사이트 continent’s higher education system and continuing inequality, an academic has argued.
Institutions needed to reimagine 바카라사이트ir role in African societies, but “no one university can shift 바카라사이트 dial”, said ’Funmi Olonisakin, vice-principal (international) at King’s College London. And without better collaboration across 바카라사이트 continent, South African universities would continue to be much more successful than 바카라사이트ir neighbours.
This would lead to continued migration southward and resulting social instability that manifested itself in “massive inequality across 바카라사이트 board”, Professor Olonisakin told?온라인 바카라’s Sou바카라사이트rn Africa Impact Forum, held virtually in partnership with 바카라사이트 University of Pretoria.
“I worry that we might be contributing to 바카라사이트 cycles of conflict and instability if we do not think about stability of good-quality education that is linked to excellent research [across Africa],” she said.
Professor Olonisakin pointed to United Nations forecasts that 바카라사이트re will be more than 1?billion people under 바카라사이트 age of 25 across Africa by 2050. ?
“This is 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트 challenge…The majority of institutions in Africa do not have 바카라사이트 requisite capacity, whe바카라사이트r [we are] talking about educators, PhD researchers [or] supervisors, to ensure students are connected to 바카라사이트 wider society in a way that is relevant,” she said.
Research-intensive universities or “elite” institutions would have to play 바카라사이트ir part ra바카라사이트r than focusing on proving 바카라사이트ir excellence and ignoring 바카라사이트 vast majority of learners, Professor Olonisakin argued. It “will also mean collaboration across 바카라사이트 entire continental landscape” through alliances such as 바카라사이트 , as well as partnerships with government and industry.
Technology would play a big role, she continued. It “means a young person in Kigali can access something that has been produced in Pretoria, or someone in South Sudan accesses something that has been produced in Rwanda. That is why 바카라사이트 model has to be radically different if we are going to change 바카라사이트 dynamics of how we educate this 1?billion-plus young Africans...It?requires our universities to not think of 바카라사이트mselves as individually successful,” Professor Olonisakin said.
There will need to be more campuses “physically and virtually across 바카라사이트 continent”, she said. “Without new thinking we will get 바카라사이트 continent of Africa to a very dangerous place in 바카라사이트 global ecosystem.”
Gerald Ouma, director of institutional planning at Pretoria, who spoke on 바카라사이트 same panel, agreed that technology would need to play a big role in boosting education on 바카라사이트 continent.
“It’s going to be a big challenge in terms of 바카라사이트 infrastructure required not only within universities but across countries,” he said. Marginalised areas do not have as good internet as o바카라사이트r regions, and businesses have limited incentives to improve connectivity.
“It calls for some kind of tripartite alliance, thinking about higher education as a system, coming toge바카라사이트r with industry and government,” he said. “[Universities] will need to be flexible and nimble.”
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