This is one of my best and exciting years (2024) as a highly passionate, qualified, experienced and global volunteer quality assurance ambassador. Why? I got to work with institutions, organizations & individuals across the world and our African continent in highly impactful ways with profound and tangible results.
Who are they? The African Union (The Africa Skills Week, The African Continental Qualifications Framework (ACQF) Project led by Eduarda Castel Branco & the Inter-Regional Dialogue on Education & Development in Africa, Latin America & the Carribean), Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM Network), (Southern Africa Quality Assurance Network) SAQAN (with the Zambia Higher Education Authority, The Namibia Council for Higher Education, The Zambia and Namibia Qualifications Authorities, The Lesotho Council for Higher Education, The Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education, The South Africa Council for Higher Education, The South Africa Qualifications Authority, etc), Higher Education Quality Assurance Forum (HEQAF) (Curtesy of the 2 dedicated gentlemen Prof Luvuyo Lalendhle University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (UNISA) & Prof Siyanda Makaula (Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Cape Peninsula University of Technology )), who brought more than 46 universities to Cape Town, South Africa).
The GQAA worked with the Ghana institute of Management & Public Administration (Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) during the review of their strategic plan, Ghana’s 10 Technical Universities Vice Chancellors during their regular meeting and the 3rd Applied Research Conference for Ghana’s 10 Technical Universities, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU), The 14th African Network for Internationalisation Education (ANIE) Conference 2024 in partnership with Obreal Global, University of Cape Coast, Laweh Open University College & All Africa Students’ Union (AASU), etc. We also worked with the Adenta Municipality Education Directorate through the Sowa Din Memorial and Adjiringano Cluster Schools. We were privileged as the GLOBAL QUALITY ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION (GQAA) to act with fellow colleagues, as the glue that cements everything about quality assurance together from all angles at every level.
The GQAA also worked with the Ghana government ministries and other sectors like the Ministry of Education, Commission for TVET, The Ghana TVET Service during the 10 Technical universities events and the African union’s Africa Skills Week; Ministry of Finance, State Interests & Governance Authority (SIGA) for the Board of Directors’ Summit that was held at Labadi beach Hotel on the 8th of October 2024.
