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Panel: Aligning the focus of education in higher education institutions to labor market needs (Part 1)
June 14, 2021 @ 11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Topic: Aligning the focus of education in HEIs to labor market needs: How do HEIs create a Sustainable and Adaptive System that offers students optimal career development with a high employment outcome?
Panel: Bernard Conyers, Supply Chain Director, Ghana; Dr. Sakah Bernard Nsaidzedze, Founder, BigSteps, USA; Prof. Baylie Damtie Yeshita, Vice-Chancellor, Kepler, Rwanda.
Moderator: Sylvia Kunkyebe, Transitions Lead, Mastercard Foundation
Synopsis: This session offers a platform for high-level tertiary education leaders and practitioners from different industrial sectors to engage in focused deliberations regarding career development and employment for student graduates from HEIs. Practitioners from various sectors of the economy are expected to share the needs of the labor market in terms of skill sets and the gaps they have observed in the graduates they have hired. Participating HEIs will present how they carry out the curriculum design, approval, educational offering and assessment, and track employment outcomes. With the audience’s active participation, the deliberation is expected to help identify the gaps between labor market needs and tertiary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Outcomes: Participants at the end of part 2 of this two-part panel, interluded by breakout sessions, will have contributed to the following:
- Identified successful synergies and gaps between the needs of the labor market and the competencies of graduates.
- Consensus on the key content of competency-based training in HEIs based on current and future trends of the labor market.
- An initial proposal/ recommendation for a live “competency matrix” contributed to by industry and HEIs.