Category: Higher Education and Skills

The role of universities in supporting young people to become effective peace builders: The experience of Hawassa University in Ethiopia

by Fikrewold Yeneneh | Feb 5, 2024 | Higher Education and Skills

Hawassa University, in collaboration with international organisations (including the EU. the British Council and USAID), has focused on three main interventions that enhance capacity of the students and enable them to take up an active role in peacebuilding activities, within the university as well as in their respective communities. Read More

Bridging the STEM gap in higher education in Bangladesh: Exploring female underrepresentation in STEM subjects

by Prithvi Shrestha, Claire Kotecki, Rubaiyat Jahan, Halida Homyara, Kristina Hultgren and Nasreen Sultana Mitu | Dec 18, 2023 | Higher Education

UNESCO reported in 2017 that women’s participation in STEM education globally is only 35%. Their participation in STEM education in Bangladesh is one of the lowest in South Asia. In most low-income countries, men still outnumber women in accessing higher education including Bangladesh. Read More

Unraveling the Digital Literacy Skills and Knowledge Gap in Ghana’s Higher Education: Listening to Undergraduate Students’ Voices

by Jacob Oppong Nkansah | Nov 16, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Skills

Stakeholders in higher education are coming to see the value of promoting digital literacy among students. Read More

Prioritising rights, equity and inclusion for marginalised groups in TVET

by Priscilla Gatonye and Nickola Browne | Nov 9, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Skills

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a vital role in enhancing labour market outcomes and facilitating social integration and mobility of marginalised groups, helping them transition from precarious livelihoods and employment situations to formal employment and decent work. Read More

Career talks: Crucial step in shaping the aspirations of youth in Uganda’s secondary schools

by Grace Mwaura and Maud Seghers | Nov 8, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Skills, Social Progress

Thousands of Ugandan youth join secondary education every school year, most of them hoping to find meaningful work after school. There is, however, a glaring gap between these employment preferences and the reality of the world of work – a gap that sets young people up for particularly troublesome school-to-work… Read More

Tertiary refugee education in Ethiopia: Integration and human capital in the IGAD region

by Dereje Anduanbessa Assayew | Sep 29, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Higher Education

This blog is written by Dereje Anduanbessa Assayew, Education Focal Person for the Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative (DAFI) Ethiopia Programme at The Association...

Artificial Intelligence University: The University of the Cyber Age

by Mike Douse | May 17, 2023 | Higher Education

Growing numbers of universities worldwide are offering programmes in Artificial Intelligence. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse describes a very different kind of higher educational institution: one that is based upon and applies AI in all of its actions. Read More

Young Workers Are Searching for Meaning and Wellbeing. Let’s Help Them Find It

by Wendy Kopp | May 2, 2023 | Skills

Companies around the world are fretting about how to stem the Great Resignation and, in particular, to engage the 19-25-year-olds who comprise “Gen Z.” Read More

Gender and the site of higher education

by Nupur Jain | Feb 6, 2023 | Higher Education and Skills

With neoliberalism and the increased visibility of women in higher education, there are different ways in which covert and overt forms of discrimination have become normalized in spaces of higher education. Read More

Gender on the higher education learning agenda internationally: Gender mainstreaming in international contexts

by Ruth Goodman and Tamsin Hinton-Smith | Oct 6, 2022 | Higher Education

Mainstreaming gender in higher education is an important means to driving wider social change through affecting thinking, beliefs and behaviour of decision-makers of tomorrow. Towards this end, the GOTHELAI project set out to address gender inequality in international higher education contexts. Read More

We must counter barriers to female leadership in universities and colleges

by Izel Kipruto | Mar 8, 2022 | Higher Education and Skills

The 2022 International Women’s Day campaign theme #BreaktheBias calls for urgent action to counter bias in social, economic, cultural, and political spheres of life, but importantly to overcome barriers to female leadership in higher education. Read More

Learning Ecosystems: Reimagining Higher Education Access for Refugees

by Maiya Hershey and Harry Haynes | Sep 23, 2021 | Higher Education, Learning

This blog was written by Maiya Hershey and Harry Haynes (British Council), and Ben Webster (Mosaik Education). In dealing with refugee crises, an important but sometimes...