BASIC Rationale

African universities welcome international collaboration in work to revise their approaches to teaching and learning and to ensure that courses are up-to-date and contextually appropriate – which means that they need to be based on research conducted in Africa.  BASIC is designed to do that by bringing non-African partner universities and Africa-based agricultural research institutions together to jointly revise teaching and training approaches, methods and course contexts.

BASIC Objective

BASIC’s specific objective is to strengthen African universities’ capacity to build the capacity that Africa requires for endogenously-driven innovation systems.  It will raise the quality of tertiary agricultural education through improvements in curricula, course content, approaches to teaching and learning, and the postgraduate training provided to university and college faculties.

BASIC Exit Strategy

BASIC is made up of a series of independent components that can be combined in any appropriate order to provide graduates with degrees that will prepare them to meet the requirements of their employers or for successful self employment.  The Secretariat’s direct role in BASIC is to bring together relevant constituencies, especially educational establishments, to work on educational materials and strategies. This intervention will remain FARA Secretariat’s core responsibility.