ASOCSA PARTNER: NIICHE
The NIICHE Institute aims to innovate Higher Learning Built Environment Education in South Africa by incorporating the input of all industry constituents and stakeholders. We develop new paradigms in response to the current pedagogical landscape.
The Organisation aims to bring about a step change in the built environment curriculum landscape in South Africa by involving all stakeholders in the process as partners in sustainable built environment higher education for the future.
NIICHE Institute aims as a resource to, inter alia:
- Improve the quality and outcomes of built environment education through active and collaborative engagement with all stakeholders in the built environment higher education space
- Align with UN SDG 4 – which requires inclusive and equitable quality education and promotion of lifelong learning opportunities
- Examine and review the way that necessary built environment is organized in terms of not just what is taught but how it is taught, how it is assessed and how feedback is provided
- Scrutinize pedagogic practices to determine their relevance, currency and appropriateness to deliver built environment education in a holistic way
- Promote relevant and transformative use of alternative innovative instructional strategies to better prepare built environment graduates for the world of work and professional practice which is increasingly technology-driven
NIICHE currently hosts 2 annual events aimed at achieving these goals, namely the Construction Education Summit and the Facilitator of Learning Bootcamp: Project Turn the Titanic.
