Universities South Africa (USAf), through its Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education (EDHE) programme, just started a series of regional workshops to equip university leadership, faculty, and support professionals with the knowledge, tools, and frameworks they need to develop and sustain entrepreneurial ecosystems.
The fruition of this capacity development programme is credited to a four-way partnership between USAf and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the primary sponsor of the EDHE programme; the United States Embassy in South Africa, through its Fulbright Specialist Programme, and ABSA Bank, through a R5 million grant aimed at supporting EDHE’s flagship programmes, including the workshop series that commenced on 9 May. The Fulbright Specialist Programme, which enables countries to leverage international expertise and best practices in numerous disciplines, has deployed a senior academic to lead the six-week training programme as part of the US government’s entrepreneurship support to South Africa’s higher education sector.