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It was an opportunity for an estimated 170 participants to interact and exchange perspectives on emerging outcomes of pedagogical innovations. These included: government officials, education policy actors drawn from various national and regional organizations; university leaders and managers; research organizations; university teaching staff and students; the media; resource persons; and, PASGR staff.

Themed ‘Pedagogy on the Move: Our Journeys’; the joint event was hosted by PASGR and its partners in the Pedagogical Leadership in Africa project as well as the collaborative Master of Research and Public Policy (MRPP) programme. It was held at the Sarova Whitesands Hotel, Mombasa, Kenya on June 24 – 28, 2019 and marked […]

Kwesi Acquah Sam, the host of AAU Talks, engages Dr. Beatrice Muganda, Director of Higher Education at the Partnerships for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) based in Nairobi, Kenya on the Pedagogical Leadership Programme run by PASGR and its impact on transforming teaching and learning processes in Africa.

African universities need to “run faster in innovating technologies to compete globally”, according to Professor Crispus Kiamba, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology in Kenya and current faculty member of the School of the Built Environment, College of Architecture and Engineering at the University of Nairobi. In his keynote […]

The Executive Director of Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR), Nairobi Kenya, Professor Tade Akin Aina, says the world is entering into a knowledge economy that is evidence-based, developed and generated through protocols and processes either in the humanities, sciences or technology. He stated this on Monday in his opening remarks at the […]

Prof. Tade Akin Aina, Executive Director of the Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) delivers the 2019 University of Ibadan’s Postgraduate College Interdisciplinary Lecture on “The Social Sciences and Public Policy in Nigeria in the Era of the 4th Industrial Revolution” View here  

The Federal Government has been urged to employ the services of Nigerian social scientists to tackle the problems of insecurity, unemployment, and poverty in the country. The Executive Director, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) Professor Tade Aina advised the government to employ social scientists in developing solutions to poverty, unemployment, and insecurity […]

Executive Director, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research (PASGR) Professor Tade Aina has declared that Nigeria needs the services of Social Scientists for solution to find solutions poverty, unemployment and insecurity problem in the country. Professor Aina who said this while delivering the postgraduate college, University of Ibadan Interdisciplinary discourse lecture entitled “The social […]

Something exciting is happening in higher education in Africa. Unlike basic education where the curriculum is centralized and often changed at whim, the higher education curriculum tends to be stabilized for a longer time. Universities also have the right to select what to teach, who to teach and how to teach. But in there lies […]