Higher Education Romeela Mohee Education Specialist Higher Education

Higher Education Romeela Mohee Education Specialist: Higher Education Project Design Workshop | Lusaka, Zambia 27 November 2017 Music Source: http: //freemusicarchive. org/: Scott Holmes_03_Inspiring_Corporate

Focus of COL Higher Education

Increase access and improve quality by decreasing costs

• Quality assurance at all levels • Increasing access • Sustainability • Capacity building of Learners

Trends in Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa Attribution 2. 0 Generic (CC BY 2. 0): https: //www. flickr. com/photos/61423903@N 06/7382239368

Average Gross Enrolment Rate (GER) TERTIARY EDUCATION (2014) 24% World Source: UNESCO Institute for statistics data centre, 2017 9% Sub-Saharan Africa

GER in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014) 9% Source: UNESCO Institute for statistics data centre, 2017 Tertiary Education 42% Secondary Education

GER %’s for Tertiary and Secondary in 4 Countries Namibia Lesotho Botswana South Africa M F M F GER-Tertiary % 8 10 8 12 23 32 16 23 GER-Secondary % 60 70 46 62 79 83 84 100 Source: UNESCO Institute for statistics data centre, 2017

Efforts by COL

In a 5 year period… 25 countries have been covered

AFRICA Botswana Rwanda Cameroon Malawi Lesotho Seychelles Mauritius Uganda Mozambique Zambia Nigeria ASIA India Pakistan Bangladesh Malaysia Sri Lanka CARIBBEA N Grenada PACIFIC New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Vanuatu Kiribati Fiji Tonga

Policies

18 National and Institutional ODL policies developed Grenada (1) Cameroon (1) Malawi (1) Mozambique (1) Nigeria (10) Rwanda (2) Uganda (1) Zambia (1)

Quality Assurance policies and National Qualifications Frameworks developed 3 Cameroon Lesotho Uganda

Materials and Capacity Building

Handbook for the Commonwealth of Learning Review and Improvement Model (COL RIM)

COL RIM combines internal and external quality assurance in a lowcost ‘do-it-yourself’ approach which does not require a panel of external experts

COL RIM certificates awarded to 9 institutions Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan Bangladesh Open University Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Pakistan Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, India National University of Lesotho NIHSS Seychelles University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka University of Mauritius Wawasan Open University, Malaysia

CEMBA/MPA Programs Raymond Loh CEMBA graduate “…offering moving and relocation services to clients in over 40 countries. ”

Commonwealth Executive MBA/MPA (as at June 2017) 14, 431 graduates to date 13, 187 CEMBA graduates 1, 244 CEMPA graduates 5 License renewals 11 partner institutions (AIOU, BOU, OUSL, OUM, WOU, BOCODOL, NOUN, KNUST, UCCI and UG)

Our Way Forward

COL Higher Education Integrated Model

Partner with us on your higher education success

• Better institutional capacity • Capacity building Teaching quality improves • Policies help to scale up • Networking • Labour market linkages • Employment Ministry for policy • Entrepreneurship Develop models in 6 countries in an integrated manner Learning outcome improves • Environmental awareness & practice • Teaching and learning resources and ODL Policy Civil society/ labour market for outreach and inclusivity University for development and delivery • Gross enrollment ratio goes up • Quality Assurance & institutional management system • Outreach and inclusivity • Technology and outreach Inaccessible accessed • Women, marginalized group, first generation learners-more enrollment

Ministries of Higher Education/Skills Development National Qualifications Framework National ODL policy Materials development E-learning platform Dual mode Universities Materials/Course development: Sustainable Business + Conventional /Open Universities Increasing access Polytechnics Learners (Entry requirements) Enrolment Traditional Learners Non-Traditional Learners Disadvantaged groups Women GENDER MAINSTREAMING Design of courses Gender scorecard Learner Support Systems Capacity building Admin/Finance training on costing COL/RIM tool Sustainability Faculty- SD concepts and SDG Quality QA policy/framework Capacity building ODL Implementation Plans Self Employed Work placement Soft Skills Tracer studies Curriculum development Strategic Planning INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Entrepreneur Private sector ODL/ e. Learning policy Public sector Graduate Employability Higher Education Activity based model Employment Human Resource Development Plan Costing model National

There are 8 components of the COL Higher Education Integrated Model

Key performance indicators - Dashboard

SWOT of ODL

ODL Policies and implementation plans

E-learning Program and Course design/LMS/Support system

Sustainability – Employability

Capacity building and resource/material development for ODL and SD

Gender mainstreaming

15 Partners University of Namibia University of Science and Technology Namibia Qualifications Authority University of Zambia Higher Education Authority Zambia Qualifications Authority Zambia Directorate of Open and Distance Education Lesotho Council of Higher Education National University of Lesotho University of Belize Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan Solomon Islands National University Open University of Mauritius Botswana College of Open and Distance Learning Busitema University, Uganda

Thank You Prof. Romeela Mohee Education Specialist col. org Kayla Ortlieb Programme Assistant