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Ethics & Leadership Track: Case presentations: Character Development through Community Engagement Initiatives

Speakers: Jude Acquaah, Angela van der Puije, Miriam Mason-Sesay, Dr. Kristine Marbell-Pierre Character education, ethical formation, and leadership development are critical for the well-being of society. To advance skills and capacities in these areas, institutions engage in varied initiatives to provide real-life experiences for students to develop and practice these skills. This session shares cases […]

Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Track: Panel discussions & Presentations Part 1: Entrepreneurship Competencies that Matter: Stories from Alumni Entrepreneurs

Speakers: Alois Mhundwa, Didintle Moreki, Edith Njage The session will explore the fundamental traits of start-up entrepreneurs that business angels consider in funding. The goal is to identify these traits to help higher-ed institutions integrate them into teaching entrepreneurship that prepares funder-ready graduates. Two business angels from across the continent will be invited to discuss […]

Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Track: Panel discussions & Presentations Part 2: Funder-ready-Entrepreneurs: A Conversation with Angel Investors

Speakers: Dr. Priya Iyer, Abu Cassim, Sewu-Steve Tawia The session will explore the fundamental traits of start-up entrepreneurs that business angels consider in funding. The goal is to identify these traits to help higher-ed institutions integrate them into teaching entrepreneurship that prepares funder-ready graduates. Two business angels from across the continent will be invited to […]

Employability Track: Discussion session: Measuring impact: Leveraging Data for Career Development in Institutions

Speakers: Karoli Kolokonyi, Nicholas Mwaura Kinyanjui, Maggie Ireri This session will help participants identify indicators for measuring the success of institutional employability efforts and ways to leverage data to inform institutional strategies on graduate employability outcomes. The session is expected to take the form of presentations and a working session for participants to draft ways […]

Entrepreneurship Track: Testing the pulse of entrepreneurship ecosystems in African higher educational institutions: a proposed diagnostic model.

Speakers: Dr. Sena Agbodjah, Dr. William Murithi, AnnStella Gakii, Elorm Dela-Brown Higher educational institutions (HEIs) across the African continent have been teaching entrepreneurship and training entrepreneurs for decades. Different institutions have tackled this by creating renditions of entrepreneurship ecosystems that serve their needs, fit within the confines of their constraints, and help them achieve their […]

Ethics & Leadership Track: Workshop: How to Develop and Facilitate Giving Voice to Values Cases

Speakers: Rebecca Awuah, Moses Coffie Traditional approaches to ethics education lack an emphasis on rehearsal—an important way individuals build competence and confidence in new skills through practice. Giving Voice to Values fills this gap by engaging learners in prescription and roleplaying values-based action through GVV case exercises. This session will use the innovative “fishbowl” method […]

Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Track: Workshop: Integrating Entrepreneurship and Innovation into your Curricula: The Botho Model

Speakers: Tebogo Matebesi, Tom Atonga, Dr. Golden Chikari The session explores how higher education institutions can educate students with an entrepreneurial and innovative mindset through learner-centred pedagogy. It presents the model used by Botho University which integrates entrepreneurial skills in every course and major in an institution. The session will offer an entrepreneurial and innovative […]

Employability Track: Discussion session: Sustainable Funding Opportunities of Career development Activities

Speaker: Abigail Welbeck The establishment and sustenance of successful and effective career activities continue to be major challenges for many institutions of higher learning. Sustainable funding is at the core of these challenges, thereby affecting the capability of institutions to maximize the opportunities for optimal empowerment of their graduates for employability before they leave campus. […]

Executives Special Session – Case Presentation: Sub Saharan African Universities Ranking

Speaker: Duncan Ross, Binta Hussaini The Inaugural sub-Saharan Africa ranking aims to explore the impact of universities in addressing some of the toughest challenges faced in the region by looking at themes including university capacity, teaching quality, employability, research impact, leadership, financial strength, and reducing inequality. As well as assessing current performance, the ranking aims […]

Ethics and Leadership Track: Workshop: Ethics and Leadership Through Africanfuturism: Pumzi, Viewing and Discussion

Speaker: Dr. Kwasu D. Tembo There is a fruitful and oftentimes contentious debate concerning the status of ethics and leadership in relation to ecological realities of many regions on the African continent. Challenged by resource scarcity, sociopolitical malfeasances, and industrial impediments to meet growing demand, while also remaining extremely rich in terms of mineral and […]

Entrepreneurship Track: Presentations: My Entrepreneurial Journey: Impact of HEI and other Ecosystem Actors

Speakers: Alfred Kitawi, Emmanuel Asaam, Sarah Karingi The session aims to engage in what contributes to the successes of small, medium, and large-scale entrepreneurs, including the challenges and lessons that can be shared from the interactions with actors along their journey in a bid to inform entrepreneurship education. View the recap of the 2022 Annual […]