This UPSCALE research project seeks to reform the education sector through implementation of dual higher education system, by addressing mismatches between the requirements of the labour market and institutions of higher learning, to enable employability and tracking processes of graduates. Aligned with the European Union’s strategic priority of relevance of education,Â
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the project brings together multidisciplinary expertise and cross-sector partnerships to generate impactful and scalable outcomes across participating regions. With this dissemination report, Southern Africa Nazarene University (SANU) outlines the project’s knowledge-sharing activities in order to increase awareness and strengthen institutional collaboration.
To operationalize and digitally consolidate the University Career Guidance Centre as a visible, accessible, and sustainable institutional unit in accordance with WP3 – T3.1, ensuring structured provision of career counselling, employability services, and stakeholder engagement.
To create and maintain an online demand–supply matching platform (jobs and internships bank) that facilitates structured interaction between students, graduates, and employers, thereby strengthening labour market integration and increasing graduate employment opportunities.
To provide the digital infrastructure necessary for the implementation of Graduate Tracer Studies under WP3 – T3.4 (Year 3), including:
To support the development and piloting of Dual Higher Education programmes under WP4 by:
To digitally facilitate alumni engagement, mentorship schemes, employer partnerships, and industry collaboration, reinforcing sustainable university–industry linkages beyond project duration.
To guarantee compliance with Erasmus+ visibility requirements and to ensure that the UCGC Webpage remains an operational, regularly updated institutional tool beyond the lifetime of the UPSCALE project.
The mission of the University Career Guidance Centre (UCGC) Webpage is to function as a structured digital interface between the university, its students and graduates, and the labour market. Developed within the UPSCALE project (101178037), the webpage serves as an institutional infrastructure that supports career guidance delivery, graduate employability monitoring, employer engagement, and the development of Dual Higher Education (DHE) pathways. It operationalizes the objectives of WP3 by providing a centralized, transparent, and accessible platform where career services, job and internship opportunities, graduate tracking surveys, and employability-related activities are systematically coordinated and disseminated. Through this digital environment, the university strengthens its responsiveness to labour market needs and ensures sustainable institutional consolidation of employability structures.
The vision of the UCGC Webpage is to become a sustainable and data-driven digital ecosystem that enhances graduate employability, institutional decision-making, and university–industry collaboration in Botswana and Eswatini. Beyond serving as an informational portal, the webpage is designed to function as an integrated employability management tool that supports evidence-based reforms, particularly through systematic graduate tracking (T3.4) and the piloting of Dual Higher Education programmes under WP4. In the long term, the webpage will contribute to embedding employability monitoring and dual career pathways into institutional culture, ensuring continuity beyond the project lifetime and strengthening the universities’ strategic alignment with national labour market priorities.
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