{"id":19186,"date":"2015-10-01T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technopolis-group.com\/innovation-in-african-higher-education-excellence-in-maths-and-sciences-to-address-developmental-challenges\/"},"modified":"2020-04-08T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:11:13","slug":"innovation-in-african-higher-education-excellence-in-maths-and-sciences-to-address-developmental-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technopolis-group.com\/fr\/innovation-in-african-higher-education-excellence-in-maths-and-sciences-to-address-developmental-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation in African higher education: excellence in maths and sciences to address developmental challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A network of five African Institutes for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) provides advanced training in applied mathematics to top African students, enabling them to pursue high-quality post-graduate studies and eventually, as future leaders, contribute to African economic, political and educational development. Funded by Canada\u2019s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the UK\u2019s Department of International Development (DFID), AIMS plans to open 10 more centres by 2025.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioned by AIMS, Technopolis Group has undertaken a mid-term evaluation of the AIMS programme. The review covers progress towards its objectives and intended outcomes, the identification of early results from the programme (including success stories), and the documentation of best practices, opportunities, lessons and corrective actions needed for the next phase of implementation and to ensure the realisation of the expected results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Innovative breakthrough <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nAIMS education model\u2019s innovative approach to teaching students at Master\u2019s\nlevel is of most interest. It is Pan-African, bi-lingual in some of the centres\n(English and French), and exposes students to high-calibre international lecturers,\nvisiting on a voluntary basis to teach for modules of three weeks each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students\nare supported on a 24\/7 basis by their tutors, and both share dedicated\naccommodation buildings. Rather than examining students\u2019 knowledge acquisition,\nthe AIMS model focuses on the continuous assessment of their acquisition of a\nset of skills in maths and computing, attitudes and values, entrepreneurship,\ncommunication and analytical thinking. The learning environment, based on the\nfostering of dialogue, is unique. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\naddition, the organisation and costs of accommodation, meals and visas are all\ncovered by AIMS, to ensure students only focus on their studies, and there is\nno discrimination based on students\u2019 social origin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nmodel is quite a breakthrough in the African university landscape, which is\ndriven by more classic methods of teaching, i.e. \u201cstudents listening to\nedifying courses\u201d. Many African universities have limited resources, e.g. computers\nor software. They also suffer from corruption, are overcrowded with students,\nand cannot afford professors of international calibre or provide full\nscholarships to their students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Francophone countries of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) seem to do slightly better at \u2018science, technology, engineering and mathematics\u2019 (STEM) education for teaching and research, Anglophone countries produce few skilled maths researchers. South Africa is no exception, despite being one of the most advanced systems in Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Links to development <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nexposure of AIMS students to international lecturers, tutors and colleagues\noften launches them onto an international education path, as many go on to\npursue Master\u2019s degrees and PhDs abroad, but a significant number return to an\neducation career in Africa. The gratitude of AIMS students and alumni for their\neducation is striking. They are committed to giving back to the institution and\nto Africa by contributing to solutions to developmental challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these positive achievements and the global recognition for excellence that the model has received, a number of questions remain. The classic African university systems do not always accept diplomas from AIMS and some tend to question the significant resources the initiative receives from local and international governments. Currently, AIMS produces many more teachers, professors and researchers than scientists working in industry or the policy arena, where many of Africa\u2019s challenges need to be solved. AIMS also has to comply with donor agendas, which sometimes pull in different directions, and has to resist these different trends in order to keep its identity and focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technopolis\nGroup is now supporting AIMS in identifying ways to consolidate and build on\nits success. We hope that our long-term relationship will continue to\ncontribute to AIMS\u2019 success and to African development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A network of five African Institutes for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,232],"tags":[],"solution":[],"sector":[74],"class_list":["post-19186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-technopolitan-fr","sector-higher-education-fr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Innovation in African higher education: excellence in maths and sciences to address developmental challenges - Technopolis Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/technopolis-group.com\/fr\/innovation-in-african-higher-education-excellence-in-maths-and-sciences-to-address-developmental-challenges\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Innovation in African higher education: excellence in maths and sciences to address developmental challenges - 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