1. Higher Education Romeela Mohee Education Specialist: Higher Education
Project Design Workshop | Lusaka, Zambia 27 November 2017
Music Source: Scott Holmes_03_Inspiring_Corporate

2. Focus of COL Higher Education

3. Increase access and improve quality by decreasing costs

4. Quality assurance at all levels
Increasing access
Sustainability
Capacity building of Learners

5. Trends in Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa
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6. Average Gross Enrolment Rate (GER)
TERTIARY EDUCATION (2014) 9%
Sub-Saharan
Africa
24% World
Source: UNESCO Institute for statistics data centre, 2017

7. GER in Sub-Saharan Africa (2014)
Tertiary
Education 9%
Secondary Education
42%
Source: UNESCO Institute for statistics data centre, 2017

8. GER %’s for Tertiary and Secondary in 4 Countries
Namibia
Lesotho
Botswana
South Africa
M F
M F
M F
GER-Tertiary %
GER-Secondary %
Source: UNESCO Institute for statistics data centre, 2017

9. Efforts by COL Five year period Around 25 countries covered
National and Institutional ODL policies developed
QA policy and Qualifications framework
COL/RIM – ( 9 institutions)
Capacity building
CEMBA/MPA programs

10. In a 5 year period… 25 countries have been covered

11. AFRICA ASIA PACIFIC CARIBBEAN Botswana Rwanda Cameroon Malawi Lesotho
Seychelles
Mauritius
Uganda
Mozambique
Zambia
Nigeria
ASIA
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Malaysia
Sri Lanka
PACIFIC
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Vanuatu
Kiribati
Fiji
Tonga
CARIBBEAN
Grenada

12. Policies

13. 18 National and Institutional ODL policies developed
Cameroon (1) Malawi (1) Mozambique (1) Nigeria (10) Rwanda (2) Uganda (1) Zambia (1)
National and Institutional ODL policies developed
Grenada (1)

14. Quality Assurance policies and National Qualifications Frameworks developed3
Cameroon
Lesotho
Uganda

15. Materials and Capacity Building

16. Handbook for the Commonwealth of Learning Review and Improvement Model (COL RIM)

17. COL RIM combines internal and external quality assurance in a low-cost ‘do-it-yourself’ approach which does not require a panel of external experts

18. COL RIM certificates awarded to 9 institutions
Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan Bangladesh Open University Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Pakistan Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, India National University of Lesotho NIHSS Seychelles University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka University of Mauritius Wawasan Open University, Malaysia

19. CEMBA/MPA Programs Raymond Loh CEMBA graduate
“…offering moving and relocation services to clients in over 40 countries.”

20. Commonwealth Executive MBA/MPA (as at June 2017)
5 License renewals
11 partner institutions
(AIOU, BOU, OUSL, OUM, WOU, BOCODOL,NOUN, KNUST, UCC, UCCI and UG)
14,431 graduates to date
13,187 CEMBA graduates
1,244 CEMPA graduates

21. Our Way Forward Five year period Around 25 countries covered
National and Institutional ODL policies developed
QA policy and Qualifications framework
COL/RIM – ( 9 institutions)
Capacity building
CEMBA/MPA programs

22. COL Higher Education Integrated Model

23. Partner with us on your higher education success

24. Develop models in 6 countries in an integrated manner
Teaching quality improves
Learning outcome improves
Inaccessible accessed
Better institutional capacity
Policies help to scale up
Capacity building
Networking
Labour market linkages
Develop models in 6 countries in an integrated manner
Ministry for policy
Civil society/ labour market for outreach and inclusivity
University for development and delivery
Employment
Entrepreneurship
Environmental awareness & practice
Teaching and learning resources and ODL Policy
Quality Assurance & institutional management system
Outreach and inclusivity
Technology and outreach
Gross enrollment ratio goes up
Women, marginalized group, first generation learners-more enrollment

25. Curriculum development
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Employability
Faculty- SD concepts and SDG
Materials/Course development:
Sustainable Business +
Capacity building
GENDER MAINSTREAMING
Dual mode Universities
Human Resource Development Plan
Public sector
Entrepreneur
Private sector
Self Employed
Work placement
Soft Skills
Tracer studies
Curriculum development
Enrolment
Employment
Higher Education
Conventional /Open Universities
National Qualifications Framework
National ODL policy
National
Gender scorecard
Ministries of Higher Education/Skills Development
Learners (Entry requirements)
Disadvantaged groups
Women
Traditional Learners
Non-Traditional Learners
Polytechnics
Strategic Planning
Learner Support Systems
Design of courses
Materials development
E-learning platform
COL/RIM tool
QA policy/framework
ODL Implementation Plans
ODL/ eLearning policy
Costing model
Quality
Sustainability
Activity based model
Admin/Finance training on costing
Increasing access

26. There are 8 components of the COL Higher Education Integrated Model

27. Key performance indicators - Dashboard

28. SWOT of ODL

29. ODL Policies and implementation plans

30. E-learning Program and Course design/LMS/Support system

31. Sustainability – Employability

32. Capacity building and resource/material development for ODL and SD

33. Gender mainstreaming

34. 15 Partners University of Namibia
Namibia University of Science and Technology
Namibia Qualifications Authority
University of Zambia
Zambia Higher Education Authority
Zambia Qualifications Authority
Zambia Directorate of Open and Distance Education
Lesotho Council of Higher Education
National University of Lesotho
University of Belize
Allama Iqbal Open University, Pakistan
Solomon Islands National University
Open University of Mauritius
Botswana College of Open and Distance Learning
Busitema University, Uganda

35. Thank You col.org Prof. Romeela Mohee Education Specialist
Kayla Ortlieb Programme Assistant