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Friday, October 22, 2004
Africans Tasked On Open And Distance Learning - Bayo Adeleke, All Africa
Vice-Chancellor, University of South Africa (UNISA), Professor Nyameko Pityama, has urged Africans to seize opportunities provided by the Open Distance Learning in terms of capacity building. Pityama, who spoke on the topic "Challenges and Opportunities of Distance Learning Institutions in Africa, while on a working visit to the National Open University of Nigeria's (NOUN) Headquarters in Lagos, pointed out that for Africa to meet up with challenges created by globalisation, there was need for human development through sound education, good governance, leadership change, policy reforms and respect for human rights. While stating that Africans should take responsibilities for its development, the president, African Council for Distance Education stressed that "it is time we realised we live in a global world, it is imperative we see ourselves as part of that world and accept the barrier of colonialism and see it as such that would strengthen us for us to transcend."
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