Kwesi Sam, host AAU Talks interviewing Joseph Hoffman, Team Leader, Higher Education Programme, Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation and Reform (SPHEIR) on Partnerships for Higher Education Innovations & Reforms.
It was an opportunity for an estimated 170 participants to interact and exchange perspectives on emerging outcomes of pedagogical innovations. These included: government officials, education policy actors drawn from various national and regional organizations; university leaders and managers; research organizations; university teaching staff and students; the media; resource persons; and, PASGR staff.
Themed ‘Pedagogy on the Move: Our Journeys’; the joint event was hosted by PASGR and its partners in the Pedagogical Leadership in Africa project as well as the collaborative Master of Research and Public Policy (MRPP) programme. It was held at the Sarova Whitesands Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya on June 24 – 28, 2019 and marked […]
Kwesi Acquah Sam, the host of AAU Talks, engages Dr. Beatrice Muganda, Director of Higher Education at the Partnerships for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) based in Nairobi, Kenya on the Pedagogical Leadership Programme run by PASGR and its impact on transforming teaching and learning processes in Africa.
African universities need to “run faster in innovating technologies to compete globally”, according to Professor Crispus Kiamba, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology in Kenya and current faculty member of the School of the Built Environment, College of Architecture and Engineering at the University of Nairobi. In his keynote […]
170 participants from the 21 universities across Africa were in attendance at the Pedagogical Leadership Annual Convening and Collaborative Master of Research and Public Policy week organized by the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) and supported by the UK Department For International Department (DFID) under the Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Innovation […]
1. Background 1. Background The public policy domain in Africa is shifting at a rapid pace moving towards inclusivity, democratization and the integration of gender as a significant component of equitable and inclusive public policies. At the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), the significance of gender in the studying, understanding and making […]
We are pleased to announce that The Indigenous Biocultural Exchange Fund (IBEX) Spring 2019 Competition is now accepting applications for events/exchanges falling between September 2019 and January 2020. The Indigenous Biocultural Exchange Fund (IBEX) offers opportunities to attend a global biocultural event/exchange or a meeting of international significance which impacts the applicants’ home territory or region. […]
PedaL is a suite of intentional and integrated interventions in design, context, processes, and content of teaching and learning aimed at maximizing learning outcomes among students. The PedaL curriculum was developed around the innovative teaching tools (pedagogical strategies) of the collaborative Master of Research and Public Policy (MRPP): case study teaching, role plays, simulations, flipped […]