Philip Uys

Dr Philip Uys, PhD

Senior International Education Consultant

Digital Innovation Specialist

Adjunct Associate Professor Education



Dr Philip Uys is ready to assist you with strategic advice, support and professional development through educational-related consulting projects that are desk-based or up to 6 weeks on-site at a time. Dr Uys is committed to providing quality services with integrity. You are welcome to contact him via LinkedIn to discuss your needs.

He strives to provide a better quality of life and human development for educational participants by increasing the access to, enhancing the quality of, emphasising a strong value-base of, and blending, traditional and emerging technologies in education to create rich and meaningful learning experiences.

He has more than 25 years' experience in leading and managing projects and teams, national educational policy and strategy work, feasibility studies, institutional benchmarking re technology enabled learning, evaluation of blended courses from a pedagogical perspective, curriculum development and training, a variety of ed tech consulting, training and implementation on primary, secondary, TVET and university level interacting with government representatives, NGOs, academics, senior educational administrators, teachers and trainers.

He has done educational projects in the Pacific (Tonga, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Pacific general for EU), Asia (India, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Bangladesh, and SE Asia in general for UNICEF), in the African-Caribbean-Pacific regions in general, and many in Africa (Botswana, South Africa, Liberia, Kenya, Ghana), as well as Australia and New Zealand.

He has successfully worked in the following areas:

  • Higher education leadership and management
  • Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
  • Primary and Secondary education
  • Open, blended and remote/distance learning
  • Open educational resources (OER)
  • Educational innovation and change
  • Quality assurance and impact analysis
  • Organisational Development
  • Business process mapping and design
  • Education policy development
  • Artificial intelligence (AI)
  • Teacher training
  • Bench-marking in Higher Education
  • Curriculum development
  • Learning Technologies/digitalization of education
  • Learning analytics
  • eLearning/online/digital learning
  • Mobile learning (mLearning)
  • Team leadership/Project management
  • Research and Innovation
  • Education strategy development

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He aims to glorify his God and Saviour, also through his work.


The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones
John Maynard Keynes (1935)

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future.
The "learned" usually find themselves equipped
to live in a world that no longer exists

Eric Hoffer (1973)


Contact Dr Philip Uys to discuss your needs