My most recent piece in Forbes.com describes some of the amazing work of the Honoris United Universities network, which operates across Africa with 16 institutions in 26 cities and over 100,000 students. The piece includes an interview with their CEO, Jonathan Louw, and one of their founders, Laura Kakon. Honoris has created a network of private universities in Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria, and South Africa and provides affordable education to thousands of students in engineering, health sciences, architecture, and other fields. Many of these are new universities pioneering new engineering education models like the Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate (CDIO) model. The piece also describes the founding of the ESPRIT University in Tunisia and EMSI in Morocco, both of which provide top-notch engineering education and send their graduates worldwide to top firms, offering promising futures for thousands of new young graduates.
