Academic City has held its maiden Education Conference, which brought together 107 leaders including school heads and assistants as well as student counsellors from 31 major schools in the country.

The Conference, dubbed “Managing the Learning Process: Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning,” sought to promote Academic City’s mission to provide and support quality education in Africa.

The Conference featured sessions, led by key members of Academic City’s leadership team.

The team aimed at exposing the participants to a variety of elements crucial for ensuring a holistic student development.

President of Academic City, Dr. Fred McBagonluri, led a “Systems Thinking Workshop”, which gave participants the opportunity to understand the connection between the importance of systems thinking in our daily lives and how its absence causes significant failures.

The workshop also gave participants a better appreciation of applying systems thinking to the teaching and learning environment to improve the delivery of education.

A presentation by the Dean of Student and Community Affairs, Ruth Kwakwa, highlighted the need for a shift in defining student success by focusing on the dynamic perspectives and interests of students instead of relying solely on the traditional and fixed views of success.

Participants, through this presentation, learned to embrace the essence of redefining success according to each student’s needs to make it easier for students to enjoy their education and chart their career paths.

As part of Academic City’s effort to promote a STEM-based education, Mathematics lecturer, Dr. Raymond Dumeh, co-led a session to demystify the concerns and fears about a STEM education alongside, Engineering Lecturer, Julian Bennett, who used a STEM activity to educate participants on simplifying STEM concepts to make learning more impactful and exciting.

The day ended with an insightful workshop on design-thinking led by Academic City’s Director of Strategy, Sunitha Jenarius with the goal of empowering the participants to develop new and innovative solutions to simple problems through a process that enables them to discover the unmet human needs for problems identified.

The schools present included Alpha Beta Education Centres, Achimota Senior High School, Mfantsiman Senior High School, Association International School, Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School and Galaxy International High School.

The Conference served as a great opportunity for representatives from each institution to network among themselves and with the Academic City team to build strategic, long-term partnerships.

Academic City remains committed to helping stakeholders to understand its mission and vision to redefine tertiary education on the continent.