The Skills for Students Graduates and Start Ups (SSGS) social enterprise initiative
aims to provide (higher education) students, graduates and start-ups with three main competences which are grouped into key masteries. The masteries are judged through experience and professional know-how to underpin:
- critical faculties of independent thinking and job competences;
- enterprising behaviour; and
- quality, impact and excellence, at personal, work team, and organizational levels.
Dissemination
As is the case with the other AFRIHERO programmes, SSGS ideas are disseminated to stakeholders through summer schools, workshops and seminars, roundtables, outreach programmes, academic publications, research paper and consulting reports.
The masteries
For details of the 3 masteries mentioned above see the notes below…
The 6 Masteries of Independent Thinking and Job Competences (WALPPD):
1. Writing;
2. Analysis and problem definition;
3. Listening;
4. Problem solving;
5. Public speaking;
6. Doing (execution)
The 9 Masteries of Entrepreneurial Thinking
(adapted from the UK National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education – NCEE):
1. Philosophy;
2. Process;
3. Pedagogy;
4. Personal Entrepreneurship;
5. Strategy;
6. State of the Game;
7. Resource Acquisition;
8. Operations; and
9. Networks
The Core Masteries of Quality, Impact and Excellence:
- Course-specific career skills including Corporate Academic CVs, completion of application forms, networking and interviews;
- Integral excellence models, including European Service Excellence Framework, European Framework for Quality Management (EFQM) and in the higher education sector frameworks like the UK Research Excellence Framework UKREF and the African Research and Teaching Excellence Framework ARETEF which we are currently developing;
- Individual and organisational knowledge management (KM) models underpinned by AFRIHERO’s performance-enhancing tools such as Careersoft(c), Corporate Academic Research Structuring System (CARESS (c)), a system for structuring and producing stellar textbooks, research monographs, related academic and professional publications (STELLARTEXT);
- Training on a wide range of ICT skills used to support these activities including Microsoft Office Suite (for examples Advanced Excel, Database, MS Project, and MS Power Point), statistical computing/data analysis tools such as SPSS, NVIVO, R, MATLAB, EViews, and C++ programming;
- Business and process improvement using such tools such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma Methodology, Statistical Quality Control (SQC), and related Excellence frameworks, for example the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM); applications of these in product and service contexts;
- Delivering on different Professional Standards Frameworks comparable to the UK Professional Standards Framework used in managing quality and standards of higher education in UK universities;
- Coaching, mentoring and training within a holistic human capital development framework for example AFRIHERO Corporate Academic Model and related Careersoft ideas;
- Training in Higher Order Skills such as critical thinking and decision making, strategic intelligence and negotiations; creative problem solving; scenario modelling; multiple intelligences and their use in exemplary teaching and learning; the theory of constraints and its application in finding optimal solutions to organisational problems; Howard Gardner’s 5 Minds for the Future (discipline, creating, synthesising, responsible and ethical minds) and their coercion in developing exceptional (senior) management talent;
- Career self-management and hyper-performance models and applications using the AFRIHERO Careersoft system;
- Organisational development and management (people, process, and technology/tools);
- Change management/leadership and related toolkits such as Critical Thinking and Decision Making (CTDM), TQM, Scenario Analysis, and Creative Problem Solving;
- Employer/industry needs analysis and skills audits;
- Service improvement, excellence, resilience versus failure and related cost/performance management/efficiencies;
- Innovative and collaborative curriculum design and delivery;
- Integrated project planning and management
Dissemination pathways
- Convening annual AfriWorldhero3e International Schools, Symposia, Conferences and Workshops (ISSCWs) with all these topics as themes
- Publishing related proceedings, journal papers, superbooks and research monographs.
Enquiries
For more details, please contact us at:
Email: info@afrihero.org.uk; or through Tel. no: +447772632150 to speak to the Director of Research and Enterprise Development, Dr Patrick Oseloka EZEPUE