Universities should focus on growth of their cities
Higher education institutions globally are playing a major role through hubs of innovation across all faculties, writes Owen Skae
The National Arts Festival has come and gone. During the festival Rhodes Business School hosted a leadership programme for managers from a national group so that participants could also experience the festival. They were amazed a university town such as Grahamstown, home of Rhodes University, could host such a huge, successful event where people from all walks of life could meet, socialise, share thoughts and ideas, network and, most importantly, get on. "You’ve got such a good thing here, you should build on it," was the general response, and it is true for all SA’s university cities and towns. As part of the transformation agenda, universities and higher education institutions should focus on their role in advancing the social and economic growth of their cities and towns. This is a global issue in which universities can and are playing a major role in their cities and towns through hubs of innovation across all faculties. In partnership with the government and business this can l...
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