Presentation by Marianne Granfelt, Secretary-General General Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF)

1. Sveriges universitets- och högskoleförbund
The Association of Swedish Higher Education
Learning Together For Change – Advancing Education for All
through Higher Education
Arusha, Tanzania 27–29 April 2015.
Hosted by University of Dar es Salaam and the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science
and Technology
Opening with the
Vice President of The
United Republic of Tanzania,
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Gharib Bilal

2. Background
• The Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF) is an
IAU member
• SUHF wanted to contribute to the IAU project, Higher
Education for Education For All (HEEFA) .
• Early 2014, SUHF investigated the interest among Swedish
universities to contribute to the project
• Idea – to build on well established collaboration between
Swedish universities and their African partners
• Positive interest from members ( 15 out of 37 members
participated in the event
• SIDA promised some financial support

3. The event
• The conference gathered some 160 participants
• Among these were researchers and leaders from 15
Swedish and 24 African universities, from 14 different
African countries

4. The event
• Key notes from
Zulmira Rodrigues (Head of the UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office and UNESCO
Merle McOmbring-Hodges (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)
Catherine A. Odora Hoppers (DST/NRF SARCHI Chair in Development
Education,University of South Africa)
• Four different themes were covered in eight workshops
Sustainability and Change
Learning, Technology and Globalization
Rights, Equality and Gender
Quality
a) Identify gaps and constraints to advance the theme
b) Clarify the role of higher education by examples and
practice
c) Specify three actions that are important for the global
agenda

5. Outcomes
Arusha Declaration on Higher Education for
Education for All
www.learningforchange2015.com
Conference report

6. Actions
Theme 1: Sustainability and Change
Action 1: Engage higher education stakeholders (e.g., educators,
scholars, students, administrators) in the application of their
knowledge, skills, and values toward the missions and goals of
EFA and SDG.
Action 2: Educate and engage the broader public (e.g.,
entrepreneurs, policy makers, the public at large) regarding
the drivers of social, economic, political, and environmental
change, and how the missions and goals of EFA and
SDG may help meet local and global needs.

7. Actions
Theme 2: Learning, Technology and Globalization
Action 3: Identify effective pedagogical ICT tools
for sustainable Pedagogical Learning Environments
(PLE) at all educational levels, adjusted to an ever-
changing digital world.
Action 4: Support teachers’ transitions from
lecturing to a collaborative engaging teaching style
for a learning society.

8. Actions
Theme 3: Rights, Equality and Gender
Action 5: Implement awareness of the Convention of the
Rights of the Child, especially from a holistic view, with the
three P’s in mind (protection, provision and participation) into
Higher Education, in order to strengthen the aspects of Global
Civic/Citizenship Education, which is a vehicle in realizing and
achieving EFA . Create awareness of CRC and gender inequalities
among the various stakeholders in order to ensure equal rights
in education at all levels.
Action 6: Strengthen University-Community engagement and
research dissemination to work together for change
(collaborative knowledge production and implementation of
research results).

9. Actions
Theme 4: Quality
Action 7: Guidelines for the promotion of cognitive justice
and on inclusive pedagogy for multiple knowledge
should be developed and reflected in policy documents for
education in general as well as for teacher education.
Action 8: Ensure necessary conditions for the realization of
post-2015 goals through securing that data for quality
assurance are relevant, well defined and reliable, and that
necessary analytical capacities are at hand.