Ethics & Leadership Focal Area
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.
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University of Ghana Business School joins GVV program to strengthen ethics-based curriculum
The University of Ghana Business School is joining the GVV Africa program, a year-old initiative focused on teaching ethical leadership. This program will equip faculty and staff with the knowledge and tools to improve their understanding of ethics and update the curriculum for students. The ultimate goal is to create a more ethical business environment in Africa by equipping future leaders with the skills to navigate ethical challenges.
Focal initiatives
Giving Voice to Values
The Giving Voice to values (GVV) curriculum teaches strategies for standing up for one’s beliefs and acting on one’s values. While most approaches to ethics education focus on building awareness of ethical issues and applying frameworks of ethical reasoning, such as consequential, rule-based, communitarian, and care or virtue-based approaches, the GVV curriculum goes beyond awareness and analysis to teaching skills in ethical action.
Building an Ethical Campus
This program provides mentorship and support for institutions to help them establish systems of ethics and leadership contextualised to their institutions. Institutions enrolled in this program engage directly with a mentor institution at various levels to build frameworks for their needs. .
General Engagements and Resources
Join a Community of Practice
Join a Speaker Session
Request unit-specific support
Innovation and Proof of Concept grant
Share a Resource
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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.
Nominate a Speaker
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.
Request 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.
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