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Sustainability of International Collaborations in Higher Education
Wycliff Edwin Tusiime Gilbert Mangusho John Groover Luwalaga
Case study: Staff exchange programme between Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (HIOA), Norway
and Kyambogo University (KYU), Uganda
Partners
Project
• Project title: Competency, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship in Vocational Education
• Project period: 2007 – 2013
Objectives
Develop relevant topics, practices and didactics for vocational teacher education in fields of double practices – as steps to develop complete educational programmes for each vocational teacher education
Strengthen the international profile through established and shared topics for student exchanges, organised and formalised as active processes of the collaboration
Fostering leadership for global justice, creating change on the ground and in our minds.
Participants
• KYU HIOA 8• (David Agole, Gertrude Ojera, Grace Muhoozi Mehangye, Chris Serwaniko,
Vincent Ogwaro Sammy, John Groover Luwalaga, Gilbert Mangusho, Wycliff Edwin Tusiime)
• HIOA KYU 4• (Roger Bakken, Peter Hammervold, Kaja Kathrine Kristiansen, Cecilie Dons
Wallebek)
Experiences
AchievementsAchievements
Curriculum Curriculum with international themes thru. reviews
Courses with global contents (PGDVP, MVP at KyU)
Programmes Students/ Staff exchange (HiOA KyU)
New study programmes (PGDVP, MVP)
Research Research collabo. & supervision of student research
Workshops, Seminars & international conferences
Infrastructure Development
Resource centres (PGDVP ICT & Books Resource Centre)
Renovation of lecture rooms (PGDVP)
Human Resource Dev. Capacity building through Staff Exchange.
Development assistance e.g. funding
Challenges
• Language differences:
– Kyambogo University and Uganda – English for
communication and educational instruction
– HiOA og Norge: De fleste programmene er på norsk
Challenges (Cont…)
• Teaching methods: pedagogical approaches to learning and
teaching
– HiOA – Student centered, more practical
– KYU – Teacher centered, less practical
• Institutional structures
– Institutional bureaucracies – power relations: delays and
frustrations
Weather difficulties
Uganda: stable, very subtle, small changes
Norway: stable, very dramatic, marked Changes
Sustainability
• Improved social relations
• Jointly developed programs
• Improved professional
contacts/Networks
• Intergovernmental relationships
and operations
• Shared visions: producing for the
global labour market
Sustainability (Cont…)
• Commitment to the objectives by partners
• Formulation of new objectives and strategies - Sensitivity to global
and institutional changes
• Resource mobilization: mutual financial accountability
• Consolidating achieved objectives: institutional and individual
responses
• Quality enhancement
Tusen takk!!