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Accepted Paper:
Beyond access: recruiting for potential, developing for change
Jean Alfeld
(University of Cape Town)
Sylvia Kunkyebe
(Ashesi University)
Ayado Ewinyu
(African Leadership Academy)
Paper short abstract:
Tertiary Partners in the Scholars Program select individuals for potential and facilitate their development and connection to networks and to opportunities. Experiences illustrate the journey of providing access to education and developing change makers.
Paper long abstract:
Grades and financial means should not be considered as the only way youth can access opportunities. Tertiary Partners in the MCF Scholars Program aim to select individuals and facilitate their development and connection to networks and to opportunities. Scholar and Partner experiences illustrate the journey of providing access to education and developing change makers.
This paper shares the experiences of three Scholar Program Partner institutions (Ashesi University, African Leadership Academy and University of Cape Town) in four stages of the Scholars Program: recruitment, support and training, preparation for transition into the world of work, and connections and linkages to opportunities. These Partners are trying to re-imagine the paradigm of access and completion rates in university education and entry level employment on the African continent.
The paper will examine relationships, connections and networks created amongst Partners and aligned organisations, as well as networks that students forge across the world through the Program. It tells stories of innovation and disruption at the individual and institutional level, that are redefining notions of access to education, student success, transition into the world of work and raising change makers.
It focuses on the experiences and interventions that Partners provide to students to develop skills necessary to drive change in their communities while tackling difficult problems facing their communities with humility. The paper will also highlight the challenges that are experienced at the institutional, individual and social level while trying to create connections and opportunities for the students to return and give back to their communities.
Deepening connections among critical change makers in Africa: experiences from the MasterCard foundation scholars program
Session 1 Friday 14 June, 2019, -