Greetings of the Season from Association of African Universities with very best wishes in the New Year

AAU (through its Quality Assurance Program) organised the "African Quality Assurance Network (AfriQAN)" Workshop and Annual General Meeting from Wednesday 25th to Friday 27th November, 2009 at the British Council, Accra Ghana

Call For Hosts/Joint Organisers The Association of African Universities will hold its Conference of Rectors, Vice Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP) during the first half of 2011

AAU (through its President) took part of the Fourth Ordinary Session of the Conference of Ministers of Education of the Africa Union (COMEDAF) 23-26 November 2009, Mombasa, Kenya. For more information on the conference, Please visit the AUC website: http://www.africa-union.org/root/au/index/index.htm or http://www.icwe.co.ke/comedaf/?page=sub-themes

African University Day 2009 November 12 is African University day; the theme for the day was: African Universities: Linkages with the Productive Sector

The final report of the AAU 12th General Conference is now available

AAU held its 67th Governing Board meeting; November 11&12, 2009; African Regent Hotel; Accra Ghana

Abuja Declaration on Sustainable Development in Africa: The Role of Higher Education

AAU co-Organized the 7th International Conference on Open Access, Accra, Ghana, 2nd - 3rd November 2009 at Alisa Hotel For more information visit the conference's website: http://www.wideopenaccess.net/

The Executive Secretary of the African Capacity Building Foundation visited the AAU Secretariat on Friday October 16, 2009

Leadership Development Worshop : 17-25 October 2009; Dakar, Senegal (the Workshop was conducted in French)

The AAU attended the 2009 Internet2 Conference in San Antonio Texas, USA from 5-8 October, 2009. For more information: Fall Internet2 Member Meeting.

Mobilizing Regional Capacity Initiative (MRCI) CYCLE 3 Research Grant - 2009 New call open till October 16, 2009

AAU organised a Workshop on Developing Internal Quality assurance for African Higer Education Institutions 16-18 September 2009 at the Mplaza Hotel, Accra Ghana
The overall objective of the workshop is for participants to have identified key areas in their work through which to enhance internal quality assurance processes in their institutions.

The Secretary General of AAU took part in the UNU/UNESCO 2009 International conference on "Africa and Globalization: Learning from the Past, Enabling a Better Future" from 28 to 29 September 2009 at the United Nations University Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan

AAU Secretary General received the ACU Symons Awards for 2009. Prof Goolam Mohamedbhai Secretary General of AAU received the ACU Symons Award during the Commonwealth Vice-Chancellors Forum which was held in Malaysia from 15 to 18 June 2009.

With the support of the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID), Higher Education for Development (HED), in collaboration with the Africa-US Higher Education Initiative and the Association of African Universities (AAU) organised a conference on the theme: Reshaping Human and Institutional Capacity Building through Higher Education Partnership. The conference was held from August 26-29, 2009 - La Palm Royal Beach Hotel - Accra Ghana.   Press Release

The AAU REN Unit organised a Workshop on "Social Networking Technologies for Teaching and Learning Transformation*" in Dakar on 26-27 May 2009. The workshop was organised organised in collaboration with the University of Manitoba and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa as a parallel event of the eLearning Africa 2009 Conference

The AAU through its DATAD programme took part in ETD2009 (Electronic Thesis and dissertation) network annual conference. This conference series is organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The 2009 conference was held June 10 - 13 at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. For more information please click here: http://www.library.pitt.edu/etd2009/

The AAU (Through AFREN) took part in the African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC), 10th Meeting in Cairo, Egypt, 10 - 22 May 2009. For more information: http://www.afnog.org/index.html

Prof. Keto Mshigeni received the AAU Award

AAU 12th General Conference ends in Abuja

AAU took part in the 2009 World Conference on Higher Education, * held in Paris, France from 5 to 8 July. For more information: http://www.unesco.org/en/wche2009

AAU is pleased to publish Africa-U.S. Higher Education Initiative. Please clik here for more information

AAU through its DATAD’s programme took part in the Second Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD). The theme is: Towards Opening Access to Information & Knowledge in the Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Africa 13 - 17 July 2009, MPLAZA Hotel Accra, Ghana

An opportunity at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center: The Institute Of International Education would like to notify you of an opportunity at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center

The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the UbuntuNet Alliance (UA) have signed a MoU in which the 2 organisations commit themselves to work together and with other stakeholders to promote research and education networking in Africa (http://www.aau.org/renu/docs/aau-ua_mou.pdf).

The AAU is pleased to announce the 2008/2009 edition of its Academic Staff Exchange Programme which aims at facilitating academic mobility and encouraging networking among AAU member institutions, as well as contributing to improvements in the quality of training and research in African higher education institutions

Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program 2010/11 Please click to download the application forms

DLR-DAAD Research Fellowships in the fields of Space, Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation Research. DLR-DAAD Fellowships offer outstanding scientists and researchers, highly-qualified foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students as well as senior scientists the opportunity to conduct special research at the institutes of the DLR in Germany. Fore more information, please visit http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/09009.de.html

Members in Good Standing That means, 0 to 2 years in membership subscription arrears..

UK announces support for higher education in Africa

The Association of African Universities (AAU) and the enLINK Initiative of the Nestlé Foundation launched a concerted action to offer free ordering and delivery of the orande enLINK trunk to selected institutions in low income countries