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Background
• Internationalisation Framework
• My bias
– Less about the mechanisms than the strategic direction of NWU
internationalisation
– Vehicle to achieve step changes in strategic advancement of NWU
• Guided by top level strategic intent relevant to hyper-connected World
• Cognizant of faculty, RE & academic relationships
• Institutional facilitation of synergy and institutional strategic advancement
• Humble beginnings
– Vision of VC despite domestic priorities
– International office in London established in 2004
Challenges
“…I don’t want to belong to a club that wants me as a member…”
• Why would any top University collaborate or partner with NWU?
– Negative perceptions associated with the African University
– SA rankings – not 1 or 2
– African Rankings
– International rankings (not even in top 500)
– Challenges of the merger (German unification)
• Need to define the new rules which plays to our strengths
Lessons
• Strategic Positioning & strategy is key
1. Portal / gateway to Africa (& potentially emerging markets)
2. GLOCAL: GLOBAL relevance – LOCAL impact
3. Local delivery partner with expertise applying world best practice to
African & Emerging market environments
• Milestones
– Charitable Trust in UK
• Patrons – Tutu, FW
• Trustees & governance
– Raised over R 5.5 million of international funding
– Created “recurring” income through GST of over R 11.5 million pa.
– Established NWU as niche global player within the constraints of the
London office remit
– VP - Attracted top international Universities and Institutions
Proposed NWU Int’l Positioning
• Portal / Gateway to Africa and emerging markets,
developing global relevant solutions to local challenges
• NWU strengths
• Research entities & selected Academic expertise – aligned with global
themes
• South Africa – Microcosm of Global Macrocosm – The “briquette” in BRICS
• Merger & diversity of 3 campuses
• Innovative
• Best Governed – PWC Prize
• Sport
• Game reserves, rural “platteland”
• Global trends
• Challenges & Mega trends
• 21st Century Technology revolution
• Power shift to emerging economies
DECLINING SUPPLY
• Diminishing agricultural
ground & water
• Climate change
• Rapid Urbanization
• Energy etc.
• Africa role?
• NWU’s role?
INCREASING DEMAND
• Population – 9 Billion by
2050
• Increased consumption by
Asia etc.
… or a world of opportunities?
Planet in peril?
Alignment NWU Research Entity themes & FP7
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Population & Health (M) ** ?
Africa Unit for Trans- disciplinary Health Research
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Drug Research and Development ***
Research Institute for Industrial Pharmacy incl. CENQUAM
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Medicine Usage in SA (MUSA) ***
Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART)
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Physical Activity Sport and Recreation
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Institute for Biokinetics ***
Institute Psychotherapy & counseling
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Centre for Human Metabonomics **
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Thematic packaging of NWU expertise
Health &
Medicine
Energy &
Environment
Food &
Nutrition
Technology
ICT, Nano, Bio
“Thematic infusion” of global themes into core business
How well can NWU graduates lead in a Chinese dominated
world ?
• c. 20% of world‟s population
• China is Africa‟s biggest trading partner
Can NWU academics play a thought leadership role in supporting South
Africa /African business & governments in dealing with China (and India)?
Six special economic zones set up by 2011
Proposed Strategic Intent & Imperatives
1. Strategic Funding
2. Existing expertise and research “packaged” in global themes
3. Pro-active development of strategic partnerships
– European Framework Program Seven (FP7) & Horizon 2020
– China, India, South America, Africa
– US, Europe
4. Exploit South Africa’s position in BRICs & NWU Glocal projects
– Ant on the elephants shoulder
5. NB Set specific IF targets:
– Per each geographic region - China, Africa, India, South America, US, EU etc.
– Per each thematic focus area – Food, Health, ICT, Environment, Energy etc.
6. Distance, virtual, blended learning
Possible Internationalisation model for NWU
NWU
Province
National
Africa
Global
Global
Challenges
Geo Political
(BRICS)
Technology
Revolution New educ. model
New entrants
Strategic int’l
partnership
Thematic
global
themes
Intl
Framework Joint degrees,
Exchange,
lectures,
conferences etc.
Centre for
Asian studies
Distance
Learning
(4th Campus) Institutional
Advancement - Alumni
- Learning Network
Global
Relevance &
Congruent
marketing
Local
impact
International - Strategic Intent & Positioning
• ACID Test
– If the ideal international partner has the choice between any other university and NWU,
they must choose NWU.
• Congruent articulation of International positioning across NWU
– Compelling Value Proposition articulated in globally relevant idiom
• NOT South African value proposition
– Cognizant of Major Global trends & drivers
– In line with national & local agendas
– Leverage NWU strengths & existing int‟l relationships to create Unique Value Proposition
• Location(s) & climate(s)
• Appeal of sport
– (World Cup Cricket & Football hosts)
– Training base for int‟l athletes
– Achieve step change in advancement of NWU‟s brand and intellectual leadership
AFRICA: Basket Case or Food Basket
• Uses c. 150 m of 874 million
available hectares
• Uses < 10% of its water
resources
• Annual renewable water
resources c. 5'400 billion m3 pa.
NWU Mafikeng : Micro & Small Farming
Intensive sustainable small scale farming in Africa -1million South African small famers?
• To be able to “maak saak” / matter deliver on this requires deep
insight and thought leadership on:
– The Global context
– The African & South African context
– The role that NWU can and should play
• NWU International Strategy
• NWU Strengths
• Existing international relationships
– How
South African Context
• Micro cosmos of Global Macro cosmos
– Our challenges (and solutions) are globally VERY relevant
– A laboratory of the world, for the world
• Examples
– Rapid Urbanization
– Distorted population growth
– Food security
– Chasm between the have‟s & have-not‟s
– Multi-culturism,
– Challenges of Diversity
Microcosm of the world
World South Africa
Rapid urbanisation & challenges Finding solutions since early „80‟s
Population explosion
Increased mobility, globalisation
Interconnectedness, global
diseases/epidemics, migration
Security, diminishing power of
smaller sovereigns, power of
corporates
Growth of super cities
Tribal backlash & rise of
fundamentalism
Climate change and environmental
strain
Implications for higher education
• In search of Education 2.0 – Transformation of educational model
• Industrial Era - R&D, “Mass manufacturing” of students
• Web 2.0 Era Educational model(s) – Collaborative, thematic synthesis (thought leadership) & rapid roll-out
– Increasingly cross-disciplinary?
– Foundational degree PLUS Life long learning partner
» how to learn plus what you learn
» knowledge broker
» Learning community partnerships - Alumni, business & external stakeholders
• Blended & distributed teaching & learning model – digitized knowledge lectures leveraging scarce resources (e.g., digitise all lectur
– Evolution of contact teaching – to leverage scarce resources, globalise footprint and internationalization of classroom,
– collaborative learning must replace “broadcast model”
– ability to deal with complexity, uncertainty and rapid change
– New competitive landscape • Mega universities
• Internationalization by other universities
• New entrants – Corporate universities – Accenture, Google, Shell (7,000 PhD‟s, 32,000 Masters)
– Distance learning players & knowledge brokers
Strategic Responses
Health &
Medicine
Energy &
Environment
Technology &
Society
Ethics &
Governance
Human health
& Life
sciences
Society & the
Future
Sust. Earth,
Energy &
Human
Environment
Living
Environment
Food & Food
production
Health,
Lifestyle &
Livelihood
Sustainable
worlds
Materials,
technologies,
Industrial
processes
Technology &
Knowledge for
health
Complex
systems
& Future
Science
Oxford
VU
WU
ETH
NWU strengths
• NWU well positioned with key differentiators
– Modern 21st Century forward thinking & innovative
– Governance model - PWC
– Research entities model – well aligned with thematic models
– Merger and “coal-face” experience with developing the African/[Emerging Market?] University
– Application of expertise as core business unique in particular community development
– Location of 3 campuses
• Rural
• Peri-urban
• City / Industrial including poor townships
Alignment NWU Research Entity themes & FP7
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Population & Health (M) ** ?
Africa Unit for Trans- disciplinary Health Research
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Drug Research and Development ***
Research Institute for Industrial Pharmacy incl. CENQUAM
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Medicine Usage in SA (MUSA) ***
Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART)
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Physical Activity Sport and Recreation
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Institute for Biokinetics ***
Institute Psychotherapy & counseling
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Centre for Human Metabonomics **
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NWU Research Entities / FP7 Matrix
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Nutrition (CEN) **** ****
Food security and safety in the North West Province (M)
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New: Food & Nutrition Security and Safety (WIP)
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NWU Research Entities / FP7 Matrix
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Energy systems **** ****
Space Physics - COE *** ? ****
Environmental Sciences and Management
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Centre for environmental Management
Chemical resource beneficiation *** ** ***
Business Mathematics and Informatics
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Work-Well: People, Policy and Performance
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Sustainable Social Development **
Tourism Research in Economic Environs and Society (TREES)
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NWU Research Entities / FP7 Matrix
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Teaching-Learning organizations
Educational Technology for Eff. Teaching, Learning & Facilitation
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Understanding & processing language in complex settings
Languages & Literature in South African context
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Musical Arts in SA: Resources and Applications
Reformed Theology & Dev. of SA Society
Development in the South African Constitutional State
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Current NWU FP7 Projects
FP7 Theme Project Focus Partners
Health RN4CAST Nurse forecasting: Human
Resources Planning in Nursing Prof. Annemarie Kruger
Information and Communication
Technologies VOICES
VOIce‐based Community‐cEntric
mobile Services for social
development
Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research
Prof. Ettienne Barnard, van Rooy
Environment (including Climate
Change) PRACTICE
Prevention and restoration
actions to combat desertification.
An integrated assessment Kobus Pienaar
Research for the benefit of SMEs CTA‐PP The Preparatory Phase for the
Cherenkov Telescope Array Space Johan vd Walt
EURATOM: Nuclear Fission and
Radiation Protection EUROPAIRS
End User Requirement for
Process heat Applications with
Innovative Reactors for
Sustainable energy supply
Pebble Bed
Modular Reactor Company (Pty)
Ltd
Dr. Pieter Rossouw
Sustainable Nutrition Research
for Africa in the Years to come SUNRAY
Identifying research needs on
malnutrition in Africa - Mandatory
Africa
Health ESAP-NUTRES?
IRSES - investigating the
causes, consequences and
solutions of malnutrition in
developing countries
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The “blue sky” university
• Key imperatives
– Strong educational brand
– Quality control, Assessment & Certification
– Customer needs translated into “products”
– Digital teaching & learning platform that incorporates revolutionary changes as
they occur e.g., social media, video conferencing etc.
– Scalable, student & tutor management system
– Strategic partnerships
Food security: 3 dimensional
matrix
Social & Economic
Agriculture
Particle
Planet
Population Person
Production
Purchase
Health: 3 dimensional matrix
Human Sciences
Life Sciences:
Medical, Pharma, ,
Nutrition, Sport
Prevention
Nano
Environment Psychological
Treatment
Physical
How to feed 9 billion people in 2050
• Developing countries will account for much of this expected increase,
with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) leading the way, as its population is
assumed to double from 770 million inhabitants in 2005 to 1.5 billion
by 2050.
• global population will increase from the current seven billion to eight
billion in 2025 and nine billion by 2050
• Combined with a further increase in wealth, this will result in a
doubling of the demand for food.
• Closing the yield gap for the main staple food crops in SSA
constitutes a critical lever for increasing agricultural productivity while
meeting the regional and global food security challenge.
• Core infrastructure such as electricity, storage, cold chain, road
networks and rural roads are vital for agricultural transfor- mation in
SSA.
• four factors is essential: appropriate technologies, a good
infrastructure, a favourable economic and institutional environment,
and the preservation of na- tural resources.
Global Context: Major Trends & drivers
• Distorted population growth – Ageing of baby boomers – pensions, 50‟s new 30‟s, medical care, working “till
death”& increased job scarcity
– Population explosion in emerging markets and higher life expentancy
• Increased demand for diminishing resources – Water, carbon energy sources (oil), fertile agricultural ground, oceanic fish, forests
• Climate change and environmental strain
• Increased mobility, globalisation – Interconnectedness, global diseases/epidemics, migration
– Security, diminishing power of smaller sovereigns, power of corporates
– Growth of super cities • 60% op worlds population will live in towns and cities by 2030
– Disesases
– Climate change
– Tribal backlash & rise of fundamentalism
• Age of Asia? – China, India & Asian Tigers
• Search for meaning, purpose and moral compasses (religion) and decline of materialism
Global Context: Major Trends & drivers
cont’d
• Technology Revolution at lightning speed
– IT & Communication revolution
– BioTech & regenerative medicine
– NanoTech
– Merger of human and machine technologies
• Ubiquitous connectivity
– Extreme bandwidth, always on
– Proliferation of digital data
– The super computer in the “Cloud(s)”
– Artificial intelligence