Higher Education Conference Calls for Pan-African Quality Assurance and Accreditation Framework
By Ali Abdi
Published November 10, 2019
More than 400 participants from Africa and Europe have produced sector-specific policy recommendations on how to further develop the chapter, Investing in people by investing in education and skills, of the Africa-Europe Alliance, first announced by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in September 2018.
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Conference delegates produced sector-specific policy recommendations on how to further develop the chapter, Investing in people by investing in education and skills, of the Africa-Europe Alliance, first announced by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in September 2018.
Among the key recommendations for the future of European-African collaboration in higher education, by the delegates who took part in the Africa-Europe conference on higher education collaboration in Brussels on October 25, 2019, include:
- increased cooperation with the private sector
- continuous professional development for academic staff
- the promotion of a Pan-African Quality Assurance and Accreditation Framework
- stronger linkages between higher education and Technical and Vocational Education and Training
- the strengthening of transnational educational partnerships, and
- a comprehensive approach to refugee integration in tertiary education.
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The conference was jointly organised by the European Commission, the African Union Commission and four higher education stakeholder organisations of EU member states – the German Academic Exchange Service, British Council, Campus France and Nuffic – this high-level conference highlighted the importance of collaboration in higher education between the two continents.
Adapted from alumniportal-deutschland.org/.
