Career & Employability
Through this focus area, The Education Collaborative builds higher education institutions’ capacity to develop lasting and transformative systems that improve graduate employability outcomes.
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Learn how six universities in Ghana leveraged our Careers & Employability training program
Six technical universities from Ghana participated in a two-day workshop focused on developing holistic Career Services programs within their respective institutions. Hosted by The Education Collaborative at Ashesi University, the workshop, has potential to impact the combined 24000 students from the institutions.
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Systems Change Program – Employability
The Systems Change Program is an 18-month systems transformation process designed to fundamentally develop the components and structures of key systems that drive outcomes in higher education institutions (HEI).
Employability Community of Practice
This Community explores strategies to groom students and guide their seamless transition to employment, entrepreneurship, or further education after graduation.
Post-Convening Grant
The Education Collaborative set up a post-convening grant to provide participating institutions with support to implement insights gleaned from convenings into actual projects.
Career Strategy Workshop
The Career Strategy Workshop is a program that empowers participating institutions to develop an effective career services strategy or reviewing an existing one. Institutions are guided through a process of needs assessment, goal setting, effective data collection, exploring funding opportunities and setting up innovative systems that sustainably drive student employability outcomes.
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Request unit-specific support
Facilitating the learning and sharing of best practices, The Education Collaborative provides department-specific support on a need basis. This ranges from career services support for strategic planning and goal setting, improving student employability outcomes as a department and developing institution-wide initiatives that improve career development for students.
Share a ‘big’ idea
The Education Collaborative is constantly looking for institutions in the network who innovate towards achieving our shared goal of transforming 1.1 million ethical entrepreneurial graduates with skills, knowledge, and character to be good citizens and to lead institutions and economies in Africa. Do you have innovative ideas for research, publications, or projects to transform career development in Africa? Propose an idea and learn how The Education Collaborative can support.
Share a resource
Get published on The Education Collaborative’s Learning Hub where network members have access to resources. The Education Collaborative provides the space for both virtual and in-person learning, through facilitating mentorship, and learning and sharing of resources within the network. Submit an article, a publication, a guidebook, or a resource that presents ideas on achieving improved employability outcomes in institutions across Africa.
Join a Community of Practice
Communities of Practice (CoP) are workgroups of educators, administrators, experts, and other stakeholders in Africa’s higher education sector. Members in the CoPs try out innovative models with minimum risk, get access to microgrants, get funding for innovations, and leverage other members’ collective competencies to deliver practical transformative solutions to their campuses and organizations. Engagement is year-round and includes research projects, symposiums, speaker sessions, reflection sessions, program reviews, and new program development.
Join a Speaker Session
The Speaker Series invites thought leaders, practitioners, and educators to share ideas, policies, models, and findings that spark discussions and push for new and improved of doing things. Structured as a colloquium, speakers from an open and unbiased stance will touch on trending issues on entrepreneurship in African higher-ed institutions. The Speaker Series takes place virtually and occurs every quarter. It is open to the public. Do you know a thought leader in career development and graduate employability? Suggest a speaker to feature in our next speaker session.
Our programs and activities are designed to fit your context, address your specific needs, and help implement and scale tailored solutions. Click below to explore and learn more.