Internationalising Higher Education

This poster will present various projects from the 'Africa Group' at Middlesex University. The group is diverse, encompassing the Schools of Arts and Education, Business, Engineering and Information Sciences, Health and Social Sciences and the Institute for Work Based Learning. The aim of the group is to explore commonalities of interests in Africa across the university to further enhance projects being undertaken, and to develop new joint projects. The group promotes its activities and interest in Africa among colleagues to encourage inter-disciplinary discourse and activity, focusing on what can be learned from Africa in partnership rather than what Africa can learn from us - knowledge sharing rather than knowledge transfer. The first project focuses on democratisation and political processes both at national and local levels, involving contacts at the University of Botswana, the Africa Institute of Southern Africa in South Africa and community based organisations in Kano, northern Nigeria. The second project is the 'Jua Kali'/Informal Manufacture Sector Collaboration with Kenyatta University and NGO Terra Nuova, East Africa, addressing deforestation and domestic energy use through appropriate technology in Kenya. The third project takes a cross-cultural management perspective with NGO management in Sub-Saharan Africa. It explores the power dynamics shaping the emergence of hybrid management systems (management principles and practices that combine 'Western' and 'African' ways of managing). The fourth project is the EMILIA project, the EU's largest-ever funded research and intervention project on lifelong learning and social inclusion. The fifth project focuses on the development of in-country training for practitioners from Diploma level to Doctorates to ensure that public health professions are enhanced