ARUA and University of London have issued a statement signaling their intention to work together in developing cutting-edge research and graduate training. The signing ceremony took place at the University of Lagos on 14th November, 2023.
The ARUA Board meeting at the University of Lagos today, 14th November 2023, approved the appointment of Professor John Owusu Gyapong as the new Secretary-General. A former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana, Professor Gyapong will take over from Professor Ernest Aryeetey when he retires at the end of July 2024.
Vice-Chancellors of ARUA Member Universities are at the University of Lagos for a two-day meeting of the ARUA Board.
Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique has been admitted as an associate member of ARUA. The decision was taken at the recent meeting of the ARUA Executive Committee which took place in Accra.
At its recent meeting held in Accra, the ARUA Executive Committee admitted Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to full membership of ARUA.
ARUA held its first Distinguished Annual Public Lecture at the auditorium of Future Africa, University of Pretoria on 14th September 2023.
ARUA Deputy Vice-Chancellors (DVCs) have held a meeting with their counterparts from The Guild of European Research-intensive Universities (The Guild) to review the progress of work since the epoch decision of their Vice Chancellors and Rectors/Presidents to set up 17 Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Brussels last June.
ARUA DVCs have recently interacted with representatives of the University of London (UoL) to discuss various options for increased collaboration in the area of graduate training.
At their recent summit in Brussels, the Vice-Chancellors and Presidents of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild) have launched seventeen research clusters that aim to transform the nature of collaborative research, foregrounding equity as a precondition for excellent and impactful research to address our common societal challenges.
The University of Pretoria (UP) has made marked improvement in the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings, rising to position 69 (up from the 101-200 band in 2022) out of 1 705 universities in 115 countries.