HRH The Duchess of Sussex joined students and academics from ACU member universities in South Africa today to discuss how higher education can help build fairer and safer societies for all.

At a roundtable discussion hosted by the ...

Students from low income Commonwealth countries will be able to apply for 10 new Commonwealth Scholarships for Master's study in Pakistan next year, thanks to funding from the Government of Pakistan.

These new scholarships, announced ...

The ACU Gender Grants are awarded annually to member universities to support the development of projects that will boost gender equity and equality. This year’s recipients and their projects are:

The University of South ...

The University of the South Pacific and

Do you have an idea to boost gender equity in your institution? Apply for a Gender Programme grant by Friday 21 September and you could receive GBP 1,000 ...

Yesterday was the second day of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in London. The four parallel forums (Business, Women, People, and Youth) are now in full swing, bringing together policymakers, diplomats and civil society ...

Today is International Women’s Day (IWD), a time to reflect on progress made in women’s rights, and to press forward for gender parity. This year, the theme for IWD is

After receiving over 90 applications from universities in 28 countries of the Commonwealth, we are pleased to announce the recipients of this year's round of ACU Gender Workshop ...

The ACU recently received a boost to the work of the Gender Programme, thanks to a charitable gift of £2,500 from

Earlier this year, the ACU Gender Programme introduced grants to help member universities organise workshops to promote gender equity in higher ...

The first Martha Farrell Memorial Fellow, Mohammad Mojibur Rahman, Associate Professor at the University of Dhaka's Institute of ...

On Monday 12 September, the ACU and the University of Nairobi convened an international conference, focusing on the SDGs and ...

‘Universities should take active responsibility for acts of ragging and gender-based violence amongst students and staff’, said the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, The Honorable Ranil Wickremesinghe, in opening a joint conference ...

The ACU is proud to announce the launch of the Martha Farrell Memorial Fellowship, an ACU Titular Fellowship specifically aimed at combatting ...

Conventional perceptions of what makes a good manager still act as a constraint on gender equity. It is those perceptions, and not the leaders themselves, that need to change.

This was a key finding of a special ...

The Women in Higher Education Management: Breaking the Glass Ceiling workshop, organised by the ACU in partnership with Tags: training, Executive Heads, conference, collaboration, Asia, gender mainstreaming

For the first time, the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will convene a separate forum addressing women’s ...

The ACU has launched ACU Measures, a new online service that will enable its members to benchmark their performance in a range of non-academic areas against other institutions across the Commonwealth.