A study conducted by the consulting firm Deloitte and by Dubai International Academic City, a free zone dedicated to higher education that offers 400 internationally recognized degrees from different universities, found that there are a number of skill gaps within the tourism and hospitality sector that make it difficult for employers to find eligible candidates.
Already a number of interesting initiatives exist, for instance programs run completely in English, special aid programs for foreigners, new internationally recognized degrees, and programs for guest lecturers.
Although Zambia trains generalist cadres with internationally recognized degrees (e.g. doctors and registered nurses), other cadres are only recognized locally or regionally (e.g. Zambia enrolled nurses, clinical officers, clinical licentiates).
In the future, Neusel hopes, the IFU might become a permanent institution, which would then offer an internationally recognized Master's degree.
Paralyzed from the waist down at the age of 15, he worked through a lengthy rehabilitation to become an internationally recognized wheelchair athlete and the first person with a disability to earn a degree in Physical Education from his university.
About 16,000 institutions worldwide confer business degrees, but only 557 of those offer an M.B.A. accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, an internationally recognized standard setter that dates to 1916.
