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East Africa: Burundi, Rwanda Varsities Join EA Council
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The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)
11 March 2008
Posted to the web 11 March 2008
Arusha
Burundi and Rwanda, which became full members of the East African Community on July 1 last year, are set to be admitted in the Inter-University Council of East Africa this week.
IUCEA will hold its governing board and annual general meetings here from today, with one of the items on the agenda as admission of eligible educational institutions from the two sates into the council.
A press statement signed by IUCEA executive secretary Prof. Chacha Nyigotti-Chacha and distributed to the media said membership of Burundi and Rwanda to the body was top on the agenda.
"Several items are on agenda of our meetings. These include admission of Burundi and Rwanda eligible institutions to membership of the Inter-University Council of East Africa," he said.
A series of meetings by IUCEA started at the Ngurdoto Mountain Lodge outside Arusha yesterday, being finalized tomorrow.
The annual general meeting tomorrow is expected to be opened by the minister for Education, Prof. Jumanne Maghembe.
The meeting will bring together vice chancellors and principals of both public and private IUCEA-member universities, the EAC secretary general, permanent secretaries responsible for higher education and public/private corporate members from national councils or commissions for science and technology.
Also in attendance will be executives from the private sector, heads of councils or commissions for higher education in the region, senate representatives and officials from international organisations.
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A key note paper on the "Role of Research, Science and Technology in the Social Economic Development of East Africa," will be presented by Prof.
Crispus Kiamba, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Science and Technology in Kenya.
IUCEA is a regional inter-governmental organisation whose mission is to encourage and develop mutually beneficial collaboration between universities in EA and between them and governments and other organisations, both public and private,
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