Summit Overview

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Welcome to Deans & Directors Higher Education Africa Summit 2024.

 

Deans and Directors are requited to take an academic leadership role and drive managerial, and fiscal responsibilities for school. This is over and above the natural responsibilities that they have to verify the adequacy of instruction, monitor academic integrity, confer degrees, and are responsible for student recruitment, admission, and academic progress.

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How do you do all that? Thankfully, the Deans & Directors Higher Education Africa Summit 2023 is here to assist you in ways never before imagined. 

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Here, we unpack Five things:

 

1. Understanding the Business School market

2. Unpacking the commercialisation of Higher Education 

3. Student Retention Strategies

4. Sustainable funding models 

5. Development of new academic programmes

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On one end, higher education should be sustainable. Universities need money to maintain the quality of education, infrastructure and academics. On the other side is that when education is commercialised, it may become unaffordable to an already impoverished population. 

 

The pandemic affected education systems worldwide. We saw the ‘pivot’ to ‘online learning’ and ‘emergency of remote teaching’ positioning educational technology as an integral component of education, bringing private sector and commercial organisations into the centre of essential educational services.

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This summit explores the concept of commercialisation of education in Africa, with a particular focus on student recruitment and retention. It maps out the efforts of a range of institutions to balance commercialisation and affordability and other social dynamics, then outlines the consequences and impact on the future of education, and identifies key issues, research priorities and recommendations to be considered as education systems begin the process of full recovery and sustainability.

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The summit answers the following questions:

 

1. What should be the factors driving commercialisation in Africa post-pandemic? 

2. What are the top considerations for new academic programmes? 

3. How much should education cost? 

4. What is the new look of the Business School market? What factors need to be considered to create a successful business school?

5. How do you balance factors driven by market and profit motives and socio-economic dynamics?

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Get answers to your pressing issues and stay ahead of the curve.

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