Sally Ward works for the British Council as the Regional Manager for Higher Education in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). She has worked across the broader MENA region for 10 years, starting her work with the British Council in Saudi Arabia as manager of the Gulf Region. She now manages the Higher Education Programme across the Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on the developing education systems in the North Africa region.   

Sally has worked in Education for more than 30 years. Her background is in schools and universities from a strategic management and development perspective. She has worked as a teacher in the UK and South Africa, as well as being involved in teacher-education, adult education, health and development education and latterly, in higher education. 

Sally is actively involved in British Council work involving refugees and migrants in MENA, particularly around higher education for Syrians in the host countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq. This involves providing technical expertise for education projects and programmes. It also includes advocacy, policy development and communications around the barriers to and key success factors for online and face-to-face programmes being developed for displaced and refugee learners.     

Sally was responsible for writing the project proposal for the LASER Project and has also helped to develop the higher education component of the HOPES Project which currently runs across five host countries. She is currently leading on the management of research into higher education for refugees across the MENA region, in partnership with UNHCR and an initiative to further research structural obstacles and attitudes to the recognition and accreditation of online and distance education in the MENA region.   

In addition to her work in higher education for refugees, she manages and coordinates British Council’s higher education programmes in 13 countries across the MENA region. Sally has a degree in education, a Master’s Degree in Management and has completed the University of Geneva’s Higher Education in Emergencies summer school course. She has led and managed research, has conceptualised, written and trained various courses, and has written and edited textbooks, books and other learning materials. 

 

 

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