News with tag 'Africa'

Date: 03/04/2017

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

 
Date: 21/10/2016

'HR steps up' saw participants from 21 countries come together for the ACU's seventh Human Resources Management (HRM) Network Conference, ...

 
 
Date: 13/09/2016

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

 
Date: 16/08/2016

This week over 40 students from 14 different countries will discuss how universities should implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as they convene at the University of Rwanda for the ACU Commonwealth Summer School 2016.

 
Date: 05/08/2016

The ACU is delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 ACU Titular Fellowships. These awards provide academics from various disciplines with the opportunity to visit prestigious institutions across the Commonwealth between October 2016 and ...

 
 
 
Date: 27/07/2016

Yesterday was the first day of the ACU Conference of University Leaders in Accra, Ghana, with more than 250 higher education experts from 35 countries gathering to ...

 
Date: 08/07/2015

The ACU is delighted to announce that five of its member institutions have been selected as University Impact Champions as part of the Tags: Africa, Asia, Commonwealth, social justice, Canada

 
Date: 10/06/2015

The ACU recently launched the Administrative Staff Training Initiative (ASTI), designed in association with the UK’s

 
Date: 15/05/2015

The SARIMA ACU conference was officially opened this week by Professor Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Trust. His keynote address was titled ‘Science, technology and innovation for a healthy, sustainable and prosperous globe ...

 
Date: 31/03/2015

Professor Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Scientific Adviser for the UK Department of Health, delivered an insightful

 
 
Date: 25/03/2015

In February 2015, the Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF) convened a meeting in Kuala Lumpur to consider their policy paper on doctoral education in Commonwealth Africa. As one of CTEF’s partners, The Association of ...

 
Date: 13/03/2015

The High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) Bureau met for the third time to make progress on their input to a roadmap developing a long-term EU-Africa research and innovation partnership with a particular focus, initially, on food ...

 
 
Date: 11/07/2014

Twelve universities from Africa have been selected to take part in a new ACU-run project that will help them to develop their academic staff early on in their careers.

The project, called ‘ Tags: Africa, research, training, early careers, capacity building, open access, STARS

 
Date: 14/04/2014

Students from Commonwealth countries can now pursue postgraduate study in a new range of destinations thanks to scholarships announced this week under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan.

Up to 15 scholarships are ...

 
Date: 17/03/2014

African universities are gradually introducing new mechanisms to encourage the uptake of research by key stakeholders, although much more remains to be done. These are the findings of a benchmarking exercise undertaken by the Development ...

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