General News

ARUA is currently searching for a Director of Research and Research Management. This is a new position, and the successful candidate will be expected to take office as soon as possible.

Prof. John O. Gyapong has on Thursday, August 1, 2024, assumed office as ARUA Secretary-General.  A symbolic handing-over ceremony took place at the office of Prof. Ernest Aryeetey.

A send-off ceremony has been held for out-going ARUA Secretary-General, Emeritus Professor Ernest Aryeetey.  The ceremony which took place at the Institute for Statistical Social & Economic Research (ISSER) hall on 30 July 2024, was attended by management of the University of Ghana, colleagues and friends of Prof. Aryeetey as well as incoming ARUA Secretary-General, Professor John Gyapong.   It was hosted by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana and Vice-Chair of the Board of ARUA, Professor Nana Aba Appiah-Amfo with ISSER as co-host.

ARUA has launched the third Universities Profiles Report.  The online launch dovetailed from the Distinguished Public Lecture. 

The Second ARUA Distinguished Public Lecture has been held on July 30, 2024. Over 160 people joined the online lecture delivered by Professor Funmi Olonisakin, Vice-President of International, Engagement & Service at King’s College London (KCL).

The ARUA Executive Committee has approved sixteen (16) Collaborative PhD programmes that will begin in January 2026. All the programmes are designed to be four-year programmes that involve 12 months of common course work to be undertaken at all the participating universities, 18 months of immersion in a research project or a period of ‘research apprenticeship’ at another participating institution. The final 18 months will be spent on students’ independent work leading to a thesis under the supervision of a team of both local and international supervisors.

The ARUA Board is delighted to announce the Second Annual Distinguished Public Lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Funmi Olonisakin. Her lecture will explore the theme, “Collaboration in Higher Education as Service to Society.”

Over 50 institutional research officers from all 23 ARUA member universities converged in Nairobi, Kenya for the third Capacity Building Workshop, hosted by the University of Nairobi. The two-day workshop, which took place on June 24-25, 2024, formed part of activities planned under Phase 3 of the ARUA-Carnegie Data-Gathering & Benchmarking Project to allow for peer learning and the establishment of best practices for institutional research at ARUA universities.

The Africa-Europe Clusters of Research Excellence (CoRE) has launched a new logo to mark the first anniversary since the initiative was established by the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) and The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (The Guild).

Professor Ernest Aryeetey, a distinguished academic leader, will be concluding his eight-year tenure as the founding secretary-general of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) at the end of July.