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Posted on Higher Education
Created 24 February 2015

We would be delighted to receive your suggestions of what the Higher Education group could organise and provide you in this collaborative space. Please give your input about:

- Possible themes for webinars and discussions

- Materials you would like to be uploaded on the group

- Resources you need about Higher Education support programmes, organisation of events and other

- Information you need

- Resources you would like to share

Thank you for your contributions!

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deboeja

Suggestions:

I think this group is about higher education based on a developed country concept, education standards and employment demands. Such as opening Erasmus to the world. This is all goodness.

But I wonder if this group would be dealing with "higher education" in the context of the needs of developing countries where the countries' needs actually demand a higher education of a more practical level, at the technician level, at the "mid level professions" (I don't know a better term) level. And not so much at the high-tech level. 

Case in point, when a student leaves school in a developing country, say, Mozambique or GuinĂ©-Bissau, what type of "higher education" is really needed to promote employment and generate employment, potentially self-employment, in their own communities? Will a budding business oriented student need an MBA? Or will the student need a "one year Business Administration primer" that will get him/her into the business word of his/her own country or community? Not necessarily working for an international company? 

This is not an attempt to reduce the education level in developing countries. Please do not take me wrong. It is about meeting immediate and medium term demands and opportunities in these very countries. In such a way that these higher education students would be better qualified to work in their own countries and not feel tempted to migrate and leave.

This would be, I believe, a very fertile ground for discussion as it could embrace a larger number of young promising professionals.