2025 June Convening

Recentering Student Development: Reflecting, Mobilizing, and Realigning Efforts for a Transformational Student Experience

Harnessing Collaboration in Higher Education to Boost Employment Outcomes

In an interview with the IFC, Education Collaborative Executive Director, Rose Dodd, discusses our impact and mission

2024 East Africa Hub Convening Highlights Education for the 21st Century

The Education Collaborative’s third annual East Africa Hub Convening brought together 98 participants from 12 countries, representing 27 higher education institutions and 11 non-academic organizations.

Impact Stories Publication

The publication highlights stories of connection, innovation and impact across The Education Collaborative network from 2020 to date

Through an affiliation of institutions across

sub-Saharan Africa

The Education Collaborative network will transform over 1.1 million students by 2030 to be ethical, entrepreneurial leaders who create jobs, transform industries, and lead economies.

How would you like to engage with us? 

students reached through tailored initiatives and programs

institutions participate in the network

educators and administrators engaged

Focal Areas

Our focal areas reflect the pressing developmental needs and trends in higher-education in Africa.

Institutions in our network engage to drive their individual needs for systems improvement while contributing to address the challenges of peers in the network

Entrepreneurship

Through this focal area, we explore and share tools and best practices that institutions may use to create and sustain an entrepreneurial ecosystem that nurtures creative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit in students to solve continental and global problems.

Ethics and Leadership

This focal area is designed to enable institutions to build a system and culture that empowers individuals and community for ethical action, empathy, teamwork, leadership and influence

Career and Employability

Through this focal area, The Education Collaborative builds higher education institutions’ capacityto develop lasting and transformative systems that improve graduate employability outcomes of their students

Faculty Development & Research

Through this focal area, we work with member institutions to build their institutional capacity through faculty training, and research and development across multiple disciplines. 

Entrepreneurship Development

Through this focus area, we explore share, and implement methods to enable institutions to have the tools and know-how to create and sustain a range of institutional and infrastructural systems that nurture creative thinking and entrepreneurial spirit in students to solve problems.

Ethics and Leadership

The Ethics and Leadership Development Focal Area comprises a selection of programs tailored to the African context.

Enabling institutions to build a system and culture that empowers individuals and community for ethical action, empathy, teamwork, leadership and influence.

Career Development and Employability

Focuses on initiatives to enable institutions to build active partnerships with industry, and have an effective system and core center that manages the career development of students from entry to Alumni.

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