As Country Director for South Africa, Dr. Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo is creating trainings and forums to share best practices on matters related to electronic questionnaire design, ethical consideration in cross-border research, big data, and analytics. He is developing a roster that will include basic information about STAR organization, calendar, the academic profile of members. He hosts critical scholarship seminars to facilitate collaboration, partnership and increase membership among academics and institutions of higher learning in South Africa. Dr. Adeyemo is developing a research handbook on topical issues in the field of international education will be initiated and contributions will be invited from scholars from Africa.
Dr. Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Adeyemo is an internationalist who has studies in various countries and cultural contexts in the past. He is also assistant editor for the Journal of International Students, a flagship publication in international education. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Management from Cavite State University, Philippines, and a postdoc training at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is also an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School, Executive Education. Dr. Adeyemo says, “I am interested to represent STAR Scholars in South Africa as Country Director in order to support the vision of this organization in South Africa for both South African and immigrant academics. I would expect STAR to foster strong bilateral and multilateral partnerships and/or collaboration with South African leading scholars in various institutions. I am willing to coordinate these activities through The Kola Scholars (TKS) networks. TKS is the organization I founded to support the internationalisation agenda in Africa.”
E-mail: samuel.adeyemo@up.ac.za