More Mobility between Academia & Industry It is also suggested that, as well as student mobility being facilitated and encouraged, the mobility of university lecturers and professors between academia and the ICT industry should be developed. The ICT industry proposes to support the changes, which it is asking universities to make by providing guest lecturers and professors from among its staff members.
Long and shorter periods of teaching activity by ICT industry personnel could be envisaged to meet the needs of academia. Government and accreditation body rules and regulations, which inhibit or prevent such university-industry personnel exchanges should be reviewed and altered as required.
The ICT industry accepts the challenge made to it by universities asking it to involve university staff based locally in its research projects so that the academics in question can work in the industry for long and short periods perhaps during sabbaticals and other mutually convenient periods and thus experience directly for themselves the changing needs of the ICT industry and feed these back into curriculum design.
