AU inaugurates council of Pan African University

The African Union recently inaugurated the council of the Pan African University, established to revitalise higher education and research in Africa by nurturing quality and exemplifying excellence, reports Xinhuanet.com.

The Pan African University, or PAU, is a flagship programme of the African Union Commission, which seeks to ensure that science and technology is handled by centres of excellence at the highest levels, according to the African Union or AU. The council, the 28-member governing body of the university, has the primary duty of issuing all PAU rules and regulations, as well as approving the university’s strategic and operational plans, agreements, programmes and budgets.

The AU summit in January 2015 elected Tolly S Mbwette from Tanzania as president, and Paulo Horácio de Sequeira e Carvalho from Angola as vice-president of the council, and the summit directed the AU Commission to constitute the broader membership of the council.

The members, who serve a three-year term on the PAU council, include representatives of the AU Commission, member states, regional economic communities, the university rectorate, staff, students, host universities, partners, academia, the private sector, the African diaspora and civil society.
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