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

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