Africa Education+Career on Clubhouse

Description

If you work at the intersection of education & Africa, or believe in the role of education in changing the place Africa occupies in the global imagination, this space is for you. We welcome students & professionals, founders & entrepreneurs,investors & donors, critics & enthusiasts!

Conversations include (not exhaustive):
⭐️Global education: How to choose a global university, test prep, write a compelling personal essay, scholarships & financing, new country, internships & jobs
⭐️ Financing: the role of governments, ODA & philanthropy, &private sector
⭐️ Careers and Networking with Africa’s best and brightest: Insights into the education and careers of successful professionals
⭐️ Outcomes: Skills, workforce & talent, jobs
⭐️ Impact: Innovation, leadership development, inclusion, human capital for SDGs, narrative transformation
⭐️ Ecosystem: Startups, investors, accelerators, donors, partnerships, events, awards,
⭐️ Issues & Challenges: Capacity, Technology, Bundled vs unbundled, public vs private provision, pre- vs post-Covid education, Braindrain vs Brain Circulation

⭐️ For Students: Global University Access - we will invite experts for Q&A w/ prospective undergrad/grad students of global universities
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Recent + upcoming interviews on career pathways with high achievers on weekly 🇺🇳SDG/Impact Careers Sundays (Co-programs at the UN@75 room on Sundays at 1255pm EST/4:55GMT) 🇺🇳:
📍18April 2021: w/ Sandra Macharia, Chief of Africa at UN's Dept of Global Comms., Editor in Chief of Africa Renewal. ex Deputy Director Comms at UNDP NY
++++PREVIOUS INTERVIEWS++++. 📍7 March 2021 Dr. Khetsiwe Dlamini, ex-Chief of Staff, UN Women; & Marion Ntiru, Elma Philanthropies

📍14 March 2021 Dr. Roselyn Akombe, Director @UNDP’s Regional Center/ Africa, ex Director Policy @UN Secretariat

📍⭐️21 March 2021 Madame Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Under-Secretary-General & Executive Director, UN Women, ex-Deputy President, South Africa(Surprise guest!)

⭐️28 March: Ms Elizabeth Elango, CEO, Global Village Project;⭐️ 4April Alana Francis de Govia, Program Director @ The Africa Center
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