According to The Economist, in 2019, 8m or 9% of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa attended tertiary education, including vocational colleges and universities. That is almost double the 4% that did so in 2000 but it is well below the global average of 32%. With the cases of COVID-19 rising on the continent and several countries in lockdown how has and will this change? How will higher education emerge from the depths of COVID-19 and what does the uncertain future hold for it? Find out on this virtual panel discussion.
Speakers
Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Education Minister of Ghana
Dan Adkins CEO of Transnational Academic Group
Jon Foster-Pedley, Dean of Henley Business School Africa
Prof Ernest Aryeetey, Secretary-General of African Research Universities Alliance
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