Internationalising Higher Education

The Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme is one of Africa's most wide reaching and ambitious initiatives, led by a consortium of 18 African universities and international organisations across nine African countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The
programme directly addresses the challenge of providing high-quality teachers to meet Millennium Development Goal 2 to achieve Universal Primary Education by 2015. Its purpose is to improve access to, and raise the quality of, all aspects of teacher education and training. TESSA has produced a wide range of multilingual open educational materials (print and online) that cover the core areas of primary, basic education teaching in five module areas: literacy, numeracy, science, life skills and social studies and the arts. The materials are available in four languages: Arabic, English, French and Kiswahili, across 750 study sections and 2,250 classroom-based activities. By combining best international practice with authorship by leading African specialists and localisation by national experts, the TESSA approach provides classroom-focused materials, activities and advice designed to improve teachers' practice. The TESSA website, www.tessafrica.net, is the world's largest multilingual open educational resource site devoted to teacher education and training in subSaharan Africa.