Enhancing Adoption of Competence -based Agricultural Curricula in Higher Education Institutions in East Africa
Who we are
AgrCBE is a partnership for the transformation of university education towards Competence based Education (CBE) in Kenya and Uganda. It is need-based to help National Higher Education Councils in Kenya and Uganda meet their regulatory tasks in managing Competence based education.
The AgrCBE project serves as an opportunity to share experiences between African and European partners, internally, regionally, and internationally.
Secondly, it will help refresh and/ or upscale expertise, tools and methods that govern HEIs to systematically embed, structure participation of industry and societal partners to Competence Based Education curricula planning and implementation processes through regulative guidance.
Lastly, it will help to escalate the HEIs’ industry linkages to provide experiential, practical learning, to strengthen and deepen cross-societal networks for further collaborative work.
Made possible with the support and contribution of Kenya Ministry of Education , Science and Technology,Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports, Inter University Council of East Africa and RUFORUM
The main Objective
To strengthen Kenya and Uganda education governance authorities’ capacity to support competence-based, work life relevant & inclusive higher education for societal and environmental development .
We stand out
The project name AgrCBE derives from the background of the project of testing and piloting of the CBE tools which is to be in early adopter Universities Gulu, Bishop Stuart, Egerton and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. These institutions partnered in another EACEA project called AgriSCALE which ended in 2024.
In that project, the gap in Competence Based Education governance was identified, and the discussions with national Higer Education Institutions governance gave birth to the project AgrCBE in 2025, also funded by the European union.
Retool higher education governance authorities’ staff in KE and UG to manage
The project will work to…..
Create guidelines for CBE-based industry collaboration for curricula planning & implementation
Train staff in Competence Based Education to become master trainers to support rollout of CBE in HEIs
Strengthen the capacity of higher education commissions to further develop & contextualize CBE support in HEIs
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