Open Call: Pilot Online Leadership Workshop

Background

The Association of African Universities (AAU) whose headquarters is in Accra, Ghana (www.aau.org and www.blog.aau.org) invites all suitably qualified persons to respond to this call for the pilot course entitled: Continuous Professional Development course for University Leaders. The course will be presented in collaboration with Saide. The AAU is the Apex Body and Voice of Higher Education in Africa, the implementing arm of the African Union on Higher and Tertiary Education matters as well as the Coordinator for the African Union Commission’s Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 2015-2025) Cluster on Higher Education. The AAU works in four languages - Portuguese, Arabic, English and French. Therefore, facilitators from these linguistic backgrounds are encouraged to respond to this call. Kindly complete the online form through this link which you can copy and paste onto any browser. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PILOT16ONLINE9LEADERSHIP2022

Aim
The aim of this course is to enable university leaders to change and improve the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) strategy or develop one if their institution does not have such a strategy.

Course Objectives
By the end of the course participants should
i) be able to address questions related to establishing and improving CPD at an institution
ii)  be able to figure out how purposeful academic professional development can take place in their institutions, and how it can be changed and improved.
iii) have a tool that you can share and discuss with colleagues and complete, adapt and implement in your own time.

Start date

Monday 17 October 2022, 13h00 GMT

The course will be offered in English only. It will later be translated into other languages.

For more information, access the document below.