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The Rising Need for Open Days at Universities
Lessons from student-driven efforts in Kenyan universities
8 min readJan 28, 2022
Key Highlights
- Being a serious university student in the 1990s and even early 2000s had the meaning of reading lecture notes assiduously and referring to books frequently, a good number of them quite old and yellow.
- Today’s job opportunities are to be created and attracted, not sought for and given.
- The world is now more in need of a skills-based higher education that can produce and recharge the right pool of workforce with the most in-demand skills.
- Young graduates today must create their own opportunities and reasons that make them indispensable to the changing labour market, which is highly influenced by digital transformation.
- Open days, such as the ones organised by Enactus university student clubs, are a great idea for mentorship in skills development, leadership, global citizenship, digital fluency, innovation, and social entrepreneurship — more of what the world needs for sustainable development.
- A student-driven approach is the more impactful and sustainable path to creating a new generation of innovative and responsible leaders — change-makers nurtured and matured with a balanced diet of quality education, experience, exposure, and empathy (4Es).
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