São Paulo – A delegation of educators and investors from the Middle East and Africa will be in Rio de Janeiro next Monday (4th) to get to know the work of Estácio University. The group, which will also be received by representatives of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), will also travel to Chile and Colombia to learn more about innovative educational models.
In March this year, the dean of Estácio University, Paula Caleffi, attended the IFC’s Making Global Connections congress in Dubai, where she spoke on the teaching model of the university, which caters to low-income groups based on job opportunities available on the market.
The meeting was attended by institutions from 27 different countries, and the group of educators and investors from Africa and the Middle East became interested in getting to know the university’s work up close. Their goal is to learn more about experiences that may help them increase the level of employability of young Arabs.
The IFC is the arm of the World Bank in charge of investing in private sector projects, among them education and healthcare, in developing countries. The delegation will be received by IFC and Estácio professionals at the latter’s Tom Jobim campus in the Barra da Tijuca neighbourhood. They will spend the day there and attend presentations on Estácio and the e4e (Education for Employment) project, promoted by the IFC with the Islamic Development Bank.
The delegation will be comprised of of Abdelrrahmane Lahlou, a representative of Morocco’s Mundiapolis University and a leading figure in academic management in Morocco and France; Dahlia Khalifa, the head of the e4e project in Saudi Arabia; Hassan El Kalla, founder of Cairo Investment & Real Estate Development, which runs a business school; Magellan Makhlouf, an executive for a private equity fund in the United Arab Emirates; and other prominent people in finance and education.
Estácio University has 278,600 enrolled students and is present in 36 cities throughout Brazil. The institution offers onsite and distance learning graduate courses – traditional, technology, and teaching –, lato sensu postgraduate courses, onsite and distance learning, master’s and doctorate courses, extension, and corporate education. Unique features include free learning material, distance learning and virtual integration between different units.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
