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The African Virtual University (AVU) www.avu.org will be attending the Borderless Higher Education for Refugees (BHER) Workshop scheduled for 30th June and 1st July 2011 in Kampala, Uganda
The AVU will be represented by Ms Catherine Wangeci Thuo who is the Manager, Projects & Business Services Unit. Ms Wangeci shall be making a presentation on the AVU Teacher Education Programme.
The workshop is part of the research project "Reaching Higher: The Provision of Higher Education for Long-term Refugees in the Dadaab Camps, Kenya" between the York University in Canada, the AVU and Kenyatta University. The project has received funding from MasterCard Foundation Grant.
The goal of the project is to improve opportunities for the tertiary education of long-term refugee youth by designing and strengthening a locally based higher education provision service. The project aims at seeing the provision of tertiary education opportunities as not only an opportunity for individuals, but also an integral part of enhancing the secondary education experience, while building in a next step for graduating secondary students.
The BHER Workshop will have 4 half-day sessions; the first would focus on what is known about the current context and the history of education programmes in Dadaab. The second would explore the kinds of programmes that might be possible. The third would attempt to describe the kinds of commitments and resources and means that would be necessary to develop such programmes. And the fourth would set out the institutional arrangements that need to be put in place and the funding that needs to be secured to make BHER a reality.
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