The African Higher Education and Research Observatory (AFRIHERO) is Africa's first virtual repository of higher education and research ideas. It aims to recreate Africa through innovations in education and research to help achieve key Millennium Development Goals such as poverty alleviation and effective leadership. AFRIHERO conducts internationally leading research programs and capacity building activities to enable African countries to attain standards of excellence in learning, teaching, and research.
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This Disciplinary Report focuses on the types of rhetoric used by three major sectors of study abroad outreach and advocacy, a field in which I am interested in building a career: Program Providers, Advocacy Organizations, and University Departments. Close attention is paid to the persuasive appeals of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos within certain sectors, as they vary in importance and application, depending on the audience. Furthermore, the role of social media has become increasingly important in the field, and much of the report documents the growing need for writers to organize and manage the content strategy of all communications and discourse representative of the sector.
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Sever-gifted towards knowledge based economy-2011Zvi Sever
Sever, Z. 2011. Nurturing gifted and talented pupils as leverage towards a knowledge-
based economy. In: Zhou Q. (Ed.) Applied Social Science- ICASS 2011, Vol. 1:
454- 458. IERI Press, Delaware USA.
Paper presented at the International Conference about Knowledge Society - challenges for the XXI century, held on the 5 and 6 November in Pitesti, Romenia
Writing and Rhetoric in the Field of Study Abroad Outreach and AdvocacyJennifer Dodge
This Disciplinary Report focuses on the types of rhetoric used by three major sectors of study abroad outreach and advocacy, a field in which I am interested in building a career: Program Providers, Advocacy Organizations, and University Departments. Close attention is paid to the persuasive appeals of Pathos, Ethos, and Logos within certain sectors, as they vary in importance and application, depending on the audience. Furthermore, the role of social media has become increasingly important in the field, and much of the report documents the growing need for writers to organize and manage the content strategy of all communications and discourse representative of the sector.
Summer programs offering ‘out of the box’ opportunities to expand educational insight and develop leadership soft skills, depending on participants’ educational level, are offered again this summer, at a top Mediterranean island.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” TICLS creates programs for people who are willing to turn their dreams into goals, through innovative non-formal education.
Sever-gifted towards knowledge based economy-2011Zvi Sever
Sever, Z. 2011. Nurturing gifted and talented pupils as leverage towards a knowledge-
based economy. In: Zhou Q. (Ed.) Applied Social Science- ICASS 2011, Vol. 1:
454- 458. IERI Press, Delaware USA.
Presentation delivered by Charles Dey, Tholsia Naidoo and Dave Walls during SAPICS 2015 in South Africa, the leading event for supply chain professionals in Africa.
International Students’ Perception towards Educational Tourism in the Kingdom...Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Educational Tourism is any type of educational
program in which travelers move to another location mainly
for the purpose of gaining a learning experience in that
location. This research aims to become a contribution to
other previous researches conducted in the field of
educational tourism to analyze the educational tourism
industry in the Kingdom of Bahrain as a basis for its
development to attract more international students to study
in universities and higher education institutions. The research
followed a quantitative methodology by distributing a survey
questionnaire to one hundred international students from
private universities in the Kingdom. The research adopted
the random sampling technique and analyzed the data
collected from those surveys statistically using mean, r-value
and p-value figures. On the basis of research findings it is
recommended that universities should improve their services
provided to international students in terms of quality, speed
and efficiency and to provide better facilities and more
academic qualifications and degrees. Bahrain, in general,
should create an educational environment that is strong
enough and well-reputed to attract more international
students and other universities to establish their campuses in
Bahrain.
An investigation into the challenges with the South African Qualifications Au...ijtsrd
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‘Student success optimises the learning and development opportunities for each student to recognise and fulfil their potential to contribute to, and flourish in, society.
To be achieved, this requires a culture in Irish higher education that values inclusivity, equity and meaningful engagement between students, staff, their institutions, and the wider community…’ (Farrell & McEvoy, 2019)
The Graduate Attribute agenda is key to fulfilling this promise to its students by Dundalk Institute of Technology, and this report outlines the results of our research with the goal of establishing our own graduate attribute framework. First, we review the development of the policy context driving graduate attribute development nationwide, and then turn to a discussion of relevant graduate attribute theories to ground our research. Finally, we present the main results.
Highlights of the April 2016 MENA-OECD Working Group on Civil Service and Int...OECD Governance
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Brief overview about what is keeping team of leadership buddies and me busy.
Slovakia watch out!;-)
Any volunteers to jump on the board in Slovakia?;-)
(ATS4-PLAT06) Considerations for sizing and deploymentBIOVIA
The Accelrys Enterprise Platform (AEP) installation guide provides a basic set of system requirements for your server. While these values will indeed get you up and running, they may not be adequate for your usage scenario. Correctly sizing your server is critical for your Enterprise’s successful deployment of AEP. There is no one-size-fits-all answer for how big your server should be, so we will cover multiple scenarios and considerations to keep in mind. Following these guidelines, your Enterprise deployment will more successful and your users will be happier. Specific scenarios covered may include Application (BioReg, ChemReg) deployment, Next Generation Sequence usage, and Modeling and Simulation usage
Presentation delivered by Charles Dey, Tholsia Naidoo and Dave Walls during SAPICS 2015 in South Africa, the leading event for supply chain professionals in Africa.
International Students’ Perception towards Educational Tourism in the Kingdom...Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Educational Tourism is any type of educational
program in which travelers move to another location mainly
for the purpose of gaining a learning experience in that
location. This research aims to become a contribution to
other previous researches conducted in the field of
educational tourism to analyze the educational tourism
industry in the Kingdom of Bahrain as a basis for its
development to attract more international students to study
in universities and higher education institutions. The research
followed a quantitative methodology by distributing a survey
questionnaire to one hundred international students from
private universities in the Kingdom. The research adopted
the random sampling technique and analyzed the data
collected from those surveys statistically using mean, r-value
and p-value figures. On the basis of research findings it is
recommended that universities should improve their services
provided to international students in terms of quality, speed
and efficiency and to provide better facilities and more
academic qualifications and degrees. Bahrain, in general,
should create an educational environment that is strong
enough and well-reputed to attract more international
students and other universities to establish their campuses in
Bahrain.
An investigation into the challenges with the South African Qualifications Au...ijtsrd
Students from universities across the SADC region and beyond who did not attain degrees from South African universities are required to go through the South Africa Qualifications Authority SAQA evaluation in order to enroll for further studies in South African universities. The challenge is that they cannot attain outright admission without the SAQA certification despite having attained undergraduate qualifications at university level. This study therefore seeks to establish how universities in the SADC region can standardize qualifications in order to harmonize university degree weighting and grading for the students to proceed to South African universities for further studies. The study will use document analysis and in depth interviews in order to glean requisite information from stakeholders. Tawanda Mukurunge | Neo Tlali | Tsepiso Mncina | Takura Bhila ""An investigation into the challenges with the South African Qualifications Authority for students with qualifications from universities outside South Africa"" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23490.pdf
Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/23490/an-investigation-into-the-challenges-with-the-south-african-qualifications-authority-for-students-with-qualifications-from-universities-outside-south-africa/tawanda-mukurunge
Competing In The 21st Century Skills Race Canadian Counsil Of Chief Executi...Colin McKillop
Canada is in danger of losing ground in the global economy unless educators and governments convince more young people to pursue science-related careers, the new report suggests.
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Graduate Attributes are the core abilities and values a higher education institute community agrees all its graduates should develop. They are the abilities employers deem necessary for today’s knowledge workers and graduate success (HEA UK, 2013). The National Framework for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education identifies ‘Student Success’ as:
‘Student success optimises the learning and development opportunities for each student to recognise and fulfil their potential to contribute to, and flourish in, society.
To be achieved, this requires a culture in Irish higher education that values inclusivity, equity and meaningful engagement between students, staff, their institutions, and the wider community…’ (Farrell & McEvoy, 2019)
The Graduate Attribute agenda is key to fulfilling this promise to its students by Dundalk Institute of Technology, and this report outlines the results of our research with the goal of establishing our own graduate attribute framework. First, we review the development of the policy context driving graduate attribute development nationwide, and then turn to a discussion of relevant graduate attribute theories to ground our research. Finally, we present the main results.
Highlights of the April 2016 MENA-OECD Working Group on Civil Service and Int...OECD Governance
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Brief overview about what is keeping team of leadership buddies and me busy.
Slovakia watch out!;-)
Any volunteers to jump on the board in Slovakia?;-)
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Introducing afrihero
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Introducing
The African Higher Education and Research
Observatory (AFRIHERO)
AFRIHERO... What is it?
AFRIHERO is Africa’s first virtual repository of higher education and research ideas which is
resourced by a global movement of academics and professionals interested in socio-economic
advancement of Africa and developing countries. This movement is known as the Society for the
Advancement of African Higher Education and Research (SAAHER).
We see in the above image a great sea of opportunities for Africa and developing countries in
general and wish that Africa takes bold steps to seize the opportunities. We also see the
seeming legs of an African hero or heroine without a clear identity and the ‘famished road’
beyond the horizon. These realities motivate us in AFRIHERO to recreate Africa through
innovations in education and research aimed at achieving key Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) such as poverty alleviation, wealth creation, gender emancipation, youth empowerment,
conflict resolution, and effective leadership and governance in educational, economic and
political systems.
Sheffield, United Kingdom.
info@afrihero.org.uk
Telephone > +44(0)1142655116
Mobile > +44(0)7772632150
www.Afrihero.org.uk
Why are we passionate about revamping higher education and research in Africa and
developing countries?
2. The mission of the African Higher Education and Research Observatory is to recreate Africa through curriculum innovations, skills-
based training, and best practices in education and research. This will enable African countries to achieve and sustain key
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as poverty alleviation, wealth creation, gender and youth empowerment, and to
institute effective leadership in educational, economic and political systems.
What are the broad aims of AFRIHERO?
1. To enable African and global academics and professionals to cooperate towards accelerating Africa's socio-
economic development
2. To innovate higher education research and curricula in Africa thereby enabling African graduates, academics and
professionals to become deeply skilled in the theory and practice of the disciplines, and able to resolve global
challenging problems facing the continent e.g. the MDGs
3. To serve as a forum for home- and Diaspora-based Africans and Friends of Africa to formulate and implement
research and capacity building interventions in African Higher Educational Institutions
4.To forge creative and sustainable South-South and North-South partnerships between Africa, its Diaspora and
international development organizations, in order to realize the above aims, especially internationalization of the HEIs
through transnational education and knowledge transfer.
5. To maintain regional organizational structures that enable AFRIHERO to address peculiar problems faced by
different regions of Africa.
How are we organised in order to achieve these aims?
We institute internationally leading research programmes up to PhD levels in key fields of learning which our global
army of contributing academics and professionals specialise in. Examples of these programmes are: Education and
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Creativity, Statistical Modelling, Business and Finance, Development Studies and
Informatics, Customer Relationship Modelling, ICT and Project Management. Other fields are accommodated in a
research programme labelled Related Topics and include Mathematical Sciences, Health and Well-Being, Social
Sciences and Humanities, and Complexity Sciences
How for example are our core research programmes structured?
We exemplify the character of our research programmes and their related capacity building work in the following
notes on the Innovation and Creativity Research Programme. Please see the website for fuller descriptions of the
research directions and capacity building activities for all the research programmes.
The AFRIHERO Innovation and Creativity Research Programme is the primary multidisciplinary hub that
drives creative learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) innovations and enterprise development initiatives of HEIs
and private sector organisations. Activities within the programme focus on researching, understanding and integrating
the theory and practices of innovation and creativity in socio-economic development, particularly in creating and
maintaining national innovation systems which are fit for the 21st Century.
3. The mission of the African Higher Education and Research Observatory is to recreate Africa through curriculum innovations, skills-
based training, and best practices in education and research. This will enable African countries to achieve and sustain key
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as poverty alleviation, wealth creation, gender and youth empowerment, and to
institute effective leadership in educational, economic and political systems.
The link between a national innovation system and elements of a high knowledge economy index (KEI) is also
studied.
The research programme is fully engaged in the development of comprehensive resources for specialist and
collaborative MSc, PhD and post-doctoral research supervision and externally funded fellowship schemes.
A primary emphasis of the programme is researching the pathways for innovation and creativity within the curricula of
specific disciplines. This will develop in graduates an innovation mindset and mastery of innovation and creativity
tools such as:
Creative problem solving; critical thinking and decision making; scenario analysis; strategic problem
solving; strategic intelligence and related higher order skills; multiple intelligences and their enactment
in Gardner's 5 Minds to the Future; theory of constraints; heuristics and decision making under
uncertainty, conflict and complexity; behavioural economics and finance; and problem structuring
methods (PSMs).
The AFRIHERO Innovation and Creativity Research Programme has a strong commitment to excellence in applied
innovation research and proven international reputation in providing model-based career guidance, research
supervision, model-based innovation and knowledge management solutions to individuals, organizations and
governments.
How do we disseminate results and best practices to appropriate audiences?
We disseminate research-informed best practices in all the research areas to local, regional, national, global
stakeholders and communities of practice, especially in developing countries. We do this through:
Academic publications; research reports; research cafe's; internships for beginning researchers;
seminars and workshops; case studies; roundtables, specialist lunch/dinner discussions; strategic
conferences and colloquia; outreach programmes; media releases; and publishing of top quality
textbooks and research monographs with a balance of local and global examples, for the benefit of
staff, students and professionals.
Please see detailed notes on the remits of these activities in different sections of the website.
How innovative are our offerings actually?
There is a depth of scholarship and research in all our programmes such as described above for the Innovation and
Creativity Research Programme. But there is also a novelty of applications accompanying such depths - novelty in
auditing and understanding stakeholder needs (staff, students and client publics) and designing solutions to those
needs which are rarely found in traditional higher education institutions. We exemplify such novelties briefly here and
enjoin you to see more of that by browsing the different sections of our website.
4. The mission of the African Higher Education and Research Observatory is to recreate Africa through curriculum innovations, skills-
based training, and best practices in education and research. This will enable African countries to achieve and sustain key
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as poverty alleviation, wealth creation, gender and youth empowerment, and to
institute effective leadership in educational, economic and political systems.
We conduct systematic reviews of key policy blueprints and respond to challenges identified in them. For instance, we
have reviewed the Nigerian Education Roadmap and are developing appropriate solutions under four main themes as
follows:
Assess and equity
Of the circa 1.2 million Nigerian youths who take the Nigerian Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
examinations yearly, only about 10-15% gets places. Hence, the policy to allow private and foreign players into the
Nigerian educational marketplace! There are now 117 universities 45 of which are private universities; 9 are newly
established universities pursuant to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ)'s policy of each state having a Federal
university. These opportunities require focused academic development of top quality learning programmes to which
we respond as follow:
We help universities to access high quality international visiting lectureships that provide needed proximity to
up skill staff and students across many disciplines and programmes.
We develop innovative cross-disciplinary learning and training programmes that will imbue graduates with
modern work and critical skills e.g. creative problem solving, critical thinking and decision making through core
concepts learned in the disciplines, personal development and career planning, ability to produce robust CVs,
rounded research skills, ICT, software and presentation skills.
We develop and host innovative on-line courses via AFRIHERO Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) spaces
under construction. We plan therefore to work with university centres for Continuing Professional Development
or centres for Continuing Education Programmes (CEPs) in providing on-line VLE capabilities which facilitate
training at first degree, certificate and diploma levels. Students can access such VLE-hosted generic and core
courses from the comfort of their homes and workplaces.
In addition, we develop specialist MSc-MPhil-PhD programmes that provide internationally leading learning and
research opportunities in strategic industry sectors of national importance e.g. financial services, public health,
oil and gas, etc. We have designed some of these programmes and await strategic opportunities to début them
in partner universities going forward.
We lead developments in quality Open University courses which Nigerian students can access without
residence in universities, using exactly the above capabilities. We will show-case these possibilities in pilot
programmes such as a planned African Graduate School of Business and Entrepreneurship, with focus on
entrepreneurship, enterprise education, innovation and business. This graduate school is under-guarded by a
radical approach to teaching and researching core business and finance disciplines which is not currently
available in Africa. Even though this is a solution to access at the graduate level, it is a desideratum for a
country's socio-economic development.
Standards and quality assurance
We develop well-researched frameworks that will enable African Higher Education Institutions to attain over time
similar levels of quality as obtain in the developed countries. For example, we are completing work on an African
Research Excellence Framework (AREF) which exceeds capabilities inherent in similar global comparators e.g. the
UK Research Excellence Framework, by developing pathways for training African academics and professionals on
how to implement academic careers and research plans that habitually attain exacting standards of excellence. We
will publish the framework in our Research Reports and embark on a continental tour of selected African universities
where we train champions who will train other academics in their home countries on the framework requirements and
modalities.
5. The mission of the African Higher Education and Research Observatory is to recreate Africa through curriculum innovations, skills-
based training, and best practices in education and research. This will enable African countries to achieve and sustain key
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as poverty alleviation, wealth creation, gender and youth empowerment, and to
institute effective leadership in educational, economic and political systems.
We plan also to address the issue of quality of undergraduate education in African HEIs by running seminars and
workshops on comparative global standards of excellence in learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) work in
different venues in Africa. For example, working with strategic stakeholders, we will build a demonstrative learning
studio that will show-case the kind of quality education that obtains in such places as Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and Harvard in the US, Cambridge University and Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, among
others. The learning studio is part of a multidisciplinary university-industry research network which we are convening
in Nigeria to bring relevant mathematics, business and finance disciplines together in addressing myriad problems of
financial education in Nigeria and Africa. The network is called the Nigerian Mathematics Statistics and Economics
Research Consortium (NIMSERC) and the demonstrative learning studio uses Statistics as a case study. We fondly
refer to these academic development efforts as 'vital street interventions in radically revamping higher education in
Nigeria and Africa'.
Funding, partnership and resource utilization
We are immensely experienced in developing winning research grants that fund vital academic and research activities
in higher education. We will cascade such skills to African HEIs through workshops and seminars. We will lead the
debates in the content of what is funded by concerned bodies e.g. Nigerian Education Trust Fund, by presenting full
cost-benefit and impact analyses of basic and policy-relevant programmes we are soliciting funding for. We are
particularly interested in skills-based entrepreneurial education that will help resolve the huge pipeline problems
associated with mass graduate unemployment in most African and developing countries
Technical/vocational education and training
This calls for re-invigorated curriculums that address cogently the theory-practice canyon in African education
systems, equip graduates with the ability to really do things with their learning, and create wealth in societies,
entrepreneurially and intrapreneurially. Of course, we offer all manner of training on related skills.
We lead ideas oon the establishment of integrated learning studios which offer students opportunities for hands-on
experiments, projects, problem solving and wider applications of the concepts they study in specific modules of their
programmes and across related disciplines. This blends technical/vocational education and training (obtained also via
industry-facing projects and use of professionals as guest lecturers) with deep theoretical knowledge of the
disciplines.
To reiterate earlier ideas, what are our unique selling points?
In all our capacity building work we take special care to be radically innovative thus:
We provide best in class results to stakeholders to enable them make clear strategic choices and reach
decisions based on real insights and understanding of substantive problems and contexts facing
them;
We help stakeholders to maintain continuous improvement in human capital and organizational know-
how, and add superior value to all stakeholders in our research and development activities.
In our engagements with business, industry and wider communities, we coach staff and students
intensely on how to think, innovate, network and lead - these are in our view the four vital capacities
that produce excellence in organisations.
It is appropriate to say that we radically transform the terms of intellectual and professional debates
and praxis in African Higher Education and Research through engaged scholarship.
6. The mission of the African Higher Education and Research Observatory is to recreate Africa through curriculum innovations, skills-
based training, and best practices in education and research. This will enable African countries to achieve and sustain key
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) such as poverty alleviation, wealth creation, gender and youth empowerment, and to
institute effective leadership in educational, economic and political systems.
But is there any evidence of the quality of our capacity building interventions?
The following personal statements of delegates’ satisfaction with a workshop on research methods we facilitated at
the University of Uyo, Nigeria, evidence utmost quality in our interventions. Please see detailed impact assessment of
the workshop in the Seminars and Workshops section of the website.
‘This kind of workshop should
broadcast on national
television’.
Udeme Akpan
‘A well thought out and
challenging workshop’.
Professor N. E. U. Inyang
‘It is the best I have ever
attended...’ Theresa M. Udofia
‘The presentation was
excellent’.
Frances E. Etim
‘The workshop is very
meaningful to both lecturers
and postgraduate students. I
suggest that similar workshops
be held regularly’.
Michael S. Akuma
‘It was a passionate delivery
by the lead facilitator with a
focus to help others and a
platform to build on’.
Anonymous
What other organizations are linked to or integrated with AFRIHERO in its pursuit of excellence in
research and capacity building?
AFRIHERO develops specialist technologies and vehicles which enable it to prosecute research and capacity building
work in niche areas of national strategic importance. We give the websites of such organizations in the contact and
further information notes below.
How do you join us and how do you contribute to the work in AFRIHERO?
You join AFRIHERO directly as a member of the Society for the Advancement of African Higher Education and
Research (SAAHER) by registering your details in our website. This membership enables you to contribute ideas and
participate in AFRIHERO events as is convenient for you.
You may also request specifically to be considered for a role as an AFRIHERO Consultant or Resource Person. For
this purpose, you should take a closer look at the remits of our research programmes and provide us with a one-page
profile and full CV. The profile will be displayed in the website as shown in the sample profiles in the Resource
Persons section and the full CV is kept confidential, only to be used when your name is included in a project proposal
as a Co-Investigator.
Contact and further information
You can access AFRIHERO freely from any computer system with Internet connections by typing
www.afrihero.org.uk into your web browser.
If you wish to know more about AFRIHERO, please email info@afrihero.org.uk.
Other organisations with which AFRIHERO is closely associated are:
The Nigerian LGA Geodemographic Classification System and Profiler (NIGECS) –
www.nigerianlgaclassification.com
Global Strategic Services and Training Ltd., UK (GLOSSTRA) – www.glosstra.co.uk