This is the first episode in a new podcast series on higher education in Africa.
This first episode will be about the privatisations of universities in Africa.
The discussion will be in 3 segments and be led by Dr. Abbes SEBIHI and Léonie SCHOELEN, Ph.D. :
1) Quality Assurance and Accreditation
2) Challenges and Harmonisation
3) Perspectives and Conclusions
Dr. Abbes SEBIHI has more than 20 years of project management experience in four continents, in the technology sector he has been working as IT expert for several companies including Bosch, Volkswagen, TüV Nord, ABB and IBM global service. During the past 11 years he has served the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation and Development (GIZ), contributing to a number of projects essentially in international higher education, Technical Vocational training and Digital learning , where he has been working as a team leader and other senior roles in cooperation with key stakeholders from Africa , Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe, such as AU/HRST, European Union, UNESCO, UNEVOC, ASEAN, ILO, OECD, SEAMEO, BMZ, BMBF, ADB and more including policymakers, coalition partners, and researchers to identify policy opportunities and advance regional sustainable development goals.
Leonie SCHOELEN, Ph.D in in Sociology and Education Sciences in December 2020, wrote her doctoral thesis on ” Facing the Global – Ambivalent Coping Strategies in the Algerian Academic Field“. After her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Politics and Society, International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies in Germany, Ireland and Scotland, she started working as a consultant for GIZ German International Cooperation in India and Benin in the field of social aspects and community engagement of renewable energy supply, respectively, rural electrification.
