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From ivory towers to poverty eradication: SARUA gets wings
7 February 2007
Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA)
A new force for social change is set to take off in southern Africa. Dutch Government funding seems set to enable SARUA to deliver on its core objectives: to strengthen collaboration between universities in the SADC region and to establish higher education as a fulcrum for integrated regional development.
In the words of Professor Njabulo Ndebele, chairperson of the Southern African Regional Universities Association: ‘SARUA begins its work in earnest at an opportune time for higher education in the SADC. The fundamental role of higher education in the development of the region and in its constituent nations is now fully accepted. Indeed, this is part of a historic trend across the entire African continent.’
Greater regional integration is an expressed goal of member states of SADC. An active SARUA will stimulate such integration in the higher education sphere, and through it into the general socio-economic development of the region as a whole.
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