LOOKING BEYOND TODAY

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LOOKING BEYOND TODAY
CAPACITY BUILDING IMPERATIVES FOR GLOBAL RELEVANCE
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Collaboration as a target does not always hit
it..

• RELEVANCE IS ESSENTIAL FOR COLLABORATION

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Developing Capacity Give these some thoughts..

• Those who pretend to be something they are not
  will eventually be found out. (Noonan,2005).
• We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of
  the dark, The real tragedy in life is when an
  Adult is afraid of the light (Pluto)

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Benefits -

• It provides an attractive offer which attracts
  possible partners
• It gives us the tools to market our availability
  with dignity
• It also ensures that where linkages and exposures
  are been developed we do not drop the ball
• It provides the dignity and self confidence
  required for beneficial International
  Interactions

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Openness to -

• Current and Best practices
• Identifying where current curriculum has gaps in
  relation to international ones
• Latest Findings
• Academic output quality assessments and
  assurance.

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Skills development

• Computer Literacy some persons will need to be
  trained.
• Marketing and public communication skills.
• Writing International linkage packages and
  proposals
• Projecting excellence

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(1) -Some thoughts by Harvard University
President Lawrence H. Summers

• Harvard, of course, exists not only to spread
  knowledge but to create it. Much research at
  Harvard is directly focused on key global
  problems.

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(2)- Some thoughts by Harvard University
President Lawrence H. Summers

• Progress at Harvard takes many, many different
  forms and it is something of which we can all be
  part. You know there is another aspect that is
  important in understanding an institution like
  this. It is, I think, very much related to
  perhaps a product of our success in being both a
  bastion of tradition and a fount of novelty. And
  that is that, almost uniquely among institutions,
  great universities like this one manage to
  preserve their greatness over very long periods
  of time.

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(3) - Some thoughts by Harvard University
President Lawrence H. Summers

• Harvard was America's leading university a
  century ago, and it is today America's leading
  university. And if you think about it, there are
  not many institutions that were leaders a hundred
  years ago and are still leaders today. What is it
  that gives us this distinctive strength? What is
  it that enables great universities to stay great?
  I would suggest that there are three important
  things -

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(4)-Some thoughts by Harvard University President
Lawrence H. Summers

• First, we are a place that is committed to
  excellence, whatever its source may be. Ours has
  been a continuing march and a continuing struggle
  - and not one that is complete - towards greater
  openness.
• That is that we are a community that is committed
  to the authority of ideas, rather than to the
  idea of authority.
• We are a place of ideas, but also a place of high
  ideals. Yes, we are committed to truth for its
  own sake and no other truth, no other sake, and
  again and again it turns out that what seems most
  abstract and irrelevant has the most enduring
  impact.

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• "We live in an age of movement and change,
  both evolutionary and revolutionary, both good
  and evil. And in such an age a university has a
  special obligation to hold fast to the best of
  the past and move fast with the best of the
  future."
• J.F Kennedy

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