Marketisation in a digitising higher education sector in Africa

Higher education in Africa and globally is being transformed at the intersection of unbundling, digitisation and marketisation. With this as a premise, this keynote will focus on key marketisation issues including what the marketization of Higher Education means in Africa, how it is a driver of the push towards blended and online courses, how it shapes and is shaped by the digitisation trend, the opportunities and threats for African HE institutions, what it might take to survive or even thrive in an increasingly intensely marketised environment, how marketisation supports and constrains the design and development of innovative and pedagogically sound courses, how educators and institutions might be able to take agency rather than simply responding to market pressures as well as what kinds of strategic choices are available to Africa HE institutions when overcoming inequality is critical and social justice agendas are central.