Tag: higher education

If not today, it will be tomorrow: the significant role of education in promoting active ageing

by Maria del Consuelo Velázquez Alva and Ricardo Sabates | Feb 17, 2025 | Learning, Social Progress

During the past decades, the life expectancy of people living in most regions of the world has increased significantly because of improvements in living conditions, socio-economic development, advances in medicine and more progressive in public health policies. Read More

The Role of Universities Located in Conflict-affected Zones in Empowering Youth and Women as Effective Peacebuilders: A Comprehensive Approach

by Amal Khalil Youssef | Apr 29, 2024 | Conflict, Crisis and Emergency

In pursuit of our Center's peacebuilding goals, we have focussed on engaging with our communities, out of the conviction that fostering an effective community necessitates leveraging local capabilities and harnessing the energies of youth and women to build peace. 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

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...

Making online higher education work: Opportunities, challenges and policy imperatives under COVID-19

by Yifei Yan | Oct 13, 2020 | Higher Education

This blog was written by Yifei Yan, LSE Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and a Founders’ Fellow with the American Society for Public Administration. Her research...

Adapting for sustainability: taking training of trainers online to continue higher education support

by Tabitha Buchner and Josie Dryden | Jul 13, 2020 | Skills, Teachers

At the mid-point in what should have been a face-to-face workshop to strengthen future facilitators and mentors of course redesign in East African universities, Tabitha Buchner...

Is higher education just a product for the wealthy?

by Charley Nussey | Nov 19, 2014 | Higher Education

Reflecting on the recent Higher Education and International Development Forum, Susy Ndaruhutse and Charley Nussey (CfBT Education Trust) ask whether higher education has...