PREAMBLE
The Association of African Universities (AAU) whose headquarters is in Accra, Ghana (www.aau.org and www.blog.aau.org) invites all suitably qualified persons to respond to this call. The AAU is the Apex Body and Voice of Higher Education in Africa, the implementing arm of the African Union on Higher and Tertiary Education matters as well as the Coordinator for the African Union Commission’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 2015-2025) Cluster on Higher Education.
The AAU has extensive experience in organizing and delivering high-quality workshops tailored to the needs of higher and tertiary education practitioners. We have effectively trained over 63,000 academic staff since the Association’s founding in 1967 and have a vast database of higher education experts that we mobilize to support the delivery of required workshops – including Francophone, Arabic, Lusophone and Anglophone experts. Currently, the Association is seeking to expand this database to include more experts in the areas where it has been running workshops over the years, as well as experts in other specialist areas where the Association is yet to implement capacity building in, but which are critical for Higher and Tertiary Education (HTE) Personnel.
The overall target is for AAU to improve the quality of workshops (run at institutional, national and international levels) and expand its training programmes to reach more African HTE personnel. This can only be achieved through the involvement of specialist area experts in the facilitation of the training workshops and the creation of quality resource materials with commonly accepted concepts, themes and areas of coverage. This open call will, therefore, enable the AAU to build a database of specialist area workshop facilitators to sustain capacity development of personnel in African Higher and Tertiary Education Institutions, through workshop training sessions.
Building a pool of specialist facilitators will also make it easier for the AAU to engage them and increase the speed at which we move to implement workshops for our stakeholders. The workshops are tailor-made to address key areas of concern indicated by institutions and prospective participants during the workshops’ online registration. This results in having an African HTE community with a shared vision which they can all rally behind and support with adequate understanding.
The AAU works in four languages – Portuguese, Arabic, English and French, therefore we encourage facilitators from these linguistic backgrounds to respond to this call. Kindly complete the online form through this link which you can copy and paste onto any browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FAC2021WORK
The successful specialist area candidates, among other things, will
Kindly use the contact details below for any further communication and inquiries:
CAPACITY BUILDING AREAS
The table below presents some thematic areas that the AAU has been implementing workshops in. We are calling for experts both in these areas, as well as in other important areas which are not included in this table, but are critical areas where capacity building is required to help improve African Higher Education’s quality in general.
THEMATIC AREA | SOME EXAMPLES OF WORKSHOPS |
Quality Assurance for the 21st Century HEIs | · (QA) External & Internal
· QA for HEIs) · African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM) institutional evaluation · QA in Marketing and Digital Marketing |
Research Methods for the 21st Century HEIs | · QA in Research for the 21st Century HE personnel
· Research Methods · Scientific Writing · Proposal writing & Partnerships · Research Leadership · Public-Private Partnerships · Research communication · Laboratory Management · Data Ethics and skills for reproducing research using STATA · QA in Journal Establishment, Management & Sustainability |
Teaching & Learning Skills for the 21st Century HEIs | · Higher Education Learner-Centred Teaching Skills for the 21st Century
· Online Teaching & Learning Management · TVET Education · Educational Technology (EdTech) · Good Assessment Practices in Higher Education · Innovations in Teaching Skills · Examination Ethics and Academic Integrity |
Higher & Tertiary Education Security | · Campus Security
· Cyber Security · Thefts & robberies etc |
Leadership & HEIs Management | · Institutional Governance
· Leadership Development · Management Development · Legal Issues in HEIs · Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning · Capacity Building for Registrars & Administrators · Procurement & Contract Management in HEIs · Faculty Development · Gender Issues in HEIs |
Financial Resources for African HEIs | · Resource Mobilization
· Best Practices in Donor Funded Projects · Financial Management in HEIs |
Library Management Systems & Knowledge Management | · Database of African Theses & Dissertations
· KOHA Library Management System |
ICT | · Cyber Security for African HEIs
· Coding Skills for Everyone · Quality Websites for HEIs |
Communication | · Communication Skills and Communication Strategies for African HEIs
· Social Media Skills for HEIs |
Students & Students’ Affairs | · Student Leaders workshops
· University Counselling & Psychological Services Practitioners · Student Affairs Practitioners in African HEIs |
Special Workshops | · Tailor-made workshops adapted to the needs of institutions |
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF AFRICAN UNIVERSITIES
AAU was established in 1967 and is the current implementing agency of the AUC’s initiatives and activities related to HE. It is also the coordinator of the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 2015-2025) cluster on HE. This activity seeks to fulfil some of CESA’s 12 strategic objectives which are in line with revitalizing the quality of all aspects of Higher Education in Africa.
Vision
To be the leading advocate for higher education in Africa, with the capacity to provide support for its member institutions in meeting national, continental and global needs.
Mission
To enhance the quality and relevance of higher education in Africa and strengthen its contribution to Africa’s development.
Core Values
Objectives of the Association of African Universities (AAU)
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