Today’s high levels of youth unemployment and increasing graduate unemployability strengthen the business case for more innovative approaches to teaching, if universities are to ensure continued relevance and sustainability into the future. This summarises the central message of Dr Olebogeng Selebi, Deputy Director: Centre for the Future of Work and a Senior Lecturer in Strategy at the University of Pretoria (UP), at the recent Higher Education Conference that concluded in Pretoria in October.
Dr Selebi was presenting alongside two other speakers on the theme ‘Entrepreneurial Work-Integrated Learning and the Responsibility of Universities’. She spoke on the sub-theme, Entrepreneurial Work-Integrated Learning and the Responsibility of Universities in Nurturing Student Entrepreneurs.