Acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Mr Chris Maiyaki, has known as on African universities to acknowledge the worth of forging partnerships with establishments worldwide to deal with constraints and supply college students with skills wanted for employment.
Maiyaki suggested on Friday, in Abuja, on the third Annual Conference of the Forum for Innovation in African Universities, FIAU, with the theme: “Strengthening Africa’s Higher Education in a post-COVID-19 world.”
Maiyaki stated by embracing worldwide collaborations; the schools can faucet right into a wealth of experience, assets, and alternatives for his or her college students and schools.
While noting that universities throughout Africa confronted a problem of useful resource constraint, he stated to deal with the state of affairs, the establishments require strategic partnerships.
“Collaboration with governments, private sector entities, philanthropic organizations, and international development agencies is crucial in pooling resources, sharing expertise, and creating sustainable funding models,” he stated.
The NUC boss famous that the fee championed the development of tips for implementing Transnational Education, TNE, in Nigeria to accomplice with different establishments overseas.
Also, the Permanent Secretary Federal Ministry of Education, David Adejo, stated there was a superb prospect for African universities to progress within the post-COVID-19 period.
Adejo stated Africa was lucky as a result of predictions in regards to the severity of the pandemic within the continent did come true; nonetheless, the continent has but to take care of the socio-economic affect of the pandemic correctly.
On his half, FIAU co-founder Prof Pascal Anosike, in his remarks, stated African universities have made outstanding progress in areas of curriculum evaluation and personal sector funding, however extra nonetheless wants to be performed in widening entry and bettering employability charge.
