HAQAA TRAININGS

AFRICAN CREDIT TRANSFER SYSTEM

MODULE 2

Understanding and mapping mobility and credit transfer (CT): a quantitative or a qualitative problem?

Module 2 at a glance

Module 1 has focused on the nature of an academic credit system (on the ‘CS’ of the acronyms: its history, what is its function in the design of curricula, the different credit systems that exist, etc.) as well as on the current situation in Africa and the different credit systems used in its different regions.

Module 2 focuses on the ‘T’ of the acronym. Transfer for Mobility. It examines two main issues:

  • Understanding, using as a basis an analysis of the effective operation of the European Credit Transfer Systeme (ECTS), how a credit system can be used as an instrument to facilitate student mobility.
  • Promoting the reflection on existing and possible future practices of student mobility at the African continental and regional level.

The main lesson to be drawn is that:

  • Legally, the main instrument of credit transfer are the agreements between specific Universities in the framework of their respective, different (i.e. non-harmonized) national legislations; and
  • Politically, what is just needed is the openness of Governments to facilitate these agreements between Universities.

And it opens the door to Module 3, which will examine the practicalities of the use of ECTS/ACTS for student mobility.

What this Module explores

  • How the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) was born as an instrument to facilitate mobility
  • That the ECTS has one of the main functions of a currency (unit of account), but not the other one (generalized means of exchange)
  • How the ECTS operates in real practice through agreements between Universities
  • Which are the practices on student mobility in the different African regions and countries
  • Whether there are prohibitions in African national legislations to agreements between Universities on student mobility
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LIVE SESSION

The live session brings together regional partners, university representatives, and student voices to take stock of academic mobility across Africa and examine how the Continental Transfer and Credit System (CTS) is being implemented on the ground. Representatives from IUCEA, CAMES/RAFANAQ, and SADC/SARUA present the current state of regional mobility schemes, complemented by university case studies from the Intra-Africa Academic Academic Mobility Scheme (MOBAF) and the student perspective from AASU. An ACTS Expert then facilitates a collective synthesis of participants’ reflection tasks, drawing out trends, challenges, data gaps, and enabling factors before closing the session with the introduction of the reflection task for Module 3.

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