2016 has been quite a good year for the Centre for Innovative & Lifelong Learning but also very hectic in terms of the battle we have had to convince the Senior Management of the University that the Centre for Innovative & Lifelong Learning cannot, and is not by any means, appropriate to fall under a specific Faculty, and even less relevant to the......proposed Faculty of ICT and Digital Technologies.
Whether this still characterizes ignorance from the highest quarters about the concepts of 21st Century Education, Lifelong Learning and the transformation of the Education landscape through new technologies, or whether this emanates from some hidden agenda of a few somewhere or for other unknown reasons, it was very demotivating and unproductive to spend practically the second half of the year, to take a bold stand and to finally convince the Senate and Deans that moving the Centre under the proposed Faculty would have been a disaster for both the 20yrs of DEOL practice at the University and the future of this institution in general.
The presentation I made at the University of Mauritius 2016 Edition of the Research week was related to our battle for preserving CILL in its current form to better serve the University in achieving its Strategic Plan and to emerge as a 21st Century University.
