📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P168961
Region: South Asia
To enhance graduate employability, improve governance of higher education and establish a regional network of higher education institutions. Key Results (From PCN) The key results area are: 1. To improve the employability of university graduates, particularly female graduates; 2. To enhance the governance capacity of the higher education sector; and 3. To improve women’s empowerment in higher education institutions that form part of a regional network.
The Project takes an approach which builds on and utilizes the synergies of national and regional support to higher education. First, the project will leverage digital connectivity, established through different World Bank national projects, among the participating countries. The universities and colleges in the regional network which are, at present, not all connected, can gain this connectivity relatively easily. Second, the project would focus on employability and leadership, particularly for women, which is one of the major development concerns in the region. Third, the project would look into promoting collaborative research among academics across different institutions in the region. In recent years, the World Bank has supported research capacity building in higher education which creates a good platform to launch regional collaboration in this aspect. Fourth, the region faces some common issues of governance and management of the higher education sector and would benefit exchange of knowledge on quality assurance, performance-based financing and teacher management systems
