East Africa Forum Pledges to Harmonise Higher Education Across the Region

By Anne Kiruku. The challenges of differing programmes of higher education across the region will be a thing of the past when the recommendations of the just concluded Academia-Private Sector Forum and Exhibitions 2013 in Nairobi are implemented.
The forum made a recommendation to create a common qualifications framework for harmonization of courses across the region and mutual recognition of qualifications. Many graduates have complained of inability to find employment in East African Community partner states due to non-recognition by partner states.
Regional integration cannot be attained if employees cannot move across the region to seek employment and exchange knowledge and innovations with citizens of partner states. More...