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Teacher Education University of Groningen is training educational administrators in Kenya

16 January 2014

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs awarded Prof Adriaan Hofman (teacher Education) from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences 1,5 million € to initiate a education programme to train the Commission for University Education (CUE) in Kenya, Africa.

The CUE is committed to ensuring increased access to sustainable quality university education and training through planning, coordination, resource mobilisation, quality assurance enhancement and information service.

The Kenya expects a doubling of the number of students  in 2017 (450.000 students at 100 universities). The training includes e-governance,  digitizing of management information, enhancing research initiatives on the relationship between academic study and labor.

The Groningen project is carried out within the Dutch Netherlands Initiative for Capacity development in Higher Education (NICHE) programme. Adriaan Hofman is academic supervisor of the project; the Erasmus University Rotterdam and education experts in Ghana and South Africa are subcontractors.

Projectmanagement: Research & Valorisation and CIT/RUG.
For more information, please contact Wiebe Zijlstra,  Research & Valorisation, wiebe.zijlstra rug.nl

This NICHE project aims at enhancing the quality of education, training and research in Kenyan universities through strengthening the Commission for University Education.
Furthermore, it focuses on developing and implementing strategies, standards and procedures to ensure the quality, gender sensitiveness and relevance of all aspects of education, training and research at the universities.

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