Professional development of entrepreneurship educators in East - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Robert Newbery Andrea Lane Professional development of entrepreneurship educators in East Africa: Opportunities for international collaboration and knowledge transfer

Higher Education in East Africa • Sector in flux: • High privatization (Uganda Kenya, Ethiopia vs Eritrea) • Increasing student enrollment vs quality assurance (Kenya) • Expansion (Kenya, Uganda) vs Mergers/Concentration (Malawi) • Financial constraints (Kenya) • Lack of qualified faculty

Challenges for EE in East Africa • Growth in EE • Institutions seem to have confused small business management with entrepreneurship. • Institutions use non-entrepreneurship instructors in non- entrepreneurship settings to teach entrepreneurship. • Lack of pedagogic training of entrepreneurship instructors • Universities/ Instructors adhere to the old, traditional teacher-centered way of teaching this EE (about, not for) • Lack of localized teaching materials • No sign of diversity of entrepreneurship courses • Shortage in faculty and PhD programs 
 • Lack of pre-service/in-service teacher training/ academic training on EE

Themes to support the development of entrepreneurship education in eastern Africa • Development of contextually relevant learning content • Building Enterprise Educator (Faculty Development) • Student exchange • Research Collaborations • PhD development

#activity1 How do we develop these areas?

#activity2 Can we collaborate?

#activity3 - homework -Leave your email -Look at the ‘takeaway’ -Let us know

Robert.Newbery@Newcastle.ac.uk krause.andrea@gmail.com