Partnership between AUF, University Denis Sassou N’Guesso

The University Denis-Sassou N’Guesso, or UDSN, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, has entered into an agreement for cooperation and digital development with AUF, the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, the international agency that promotes French-language higher education.

The partnership was signed between the head of the AUF, Slim Khalbous, and the director of UDSN, Professor Ange Antoine Abéna, reported the Agence d’Information d’Afrique Centrale, or ADIAC.

Khalbous noted that the AUF now had a network of more than 1,000 higher education institutions, including 400 in Africa. The agency is based in Montreal and Paris.

“With the diversity of offering, which responds to the needs of the country, we can take action on the variety of courses, which is one of the challenges for success of a university’s programmes and its relevance to the world of work, as well as the socio-economic sphere,” ADIAC reported him as saying.

He also stressed the importance of digitalisation in education, change and governance of universities, in research and innovation.

The two heads discussed issues concerning their partnership, university-business interaction, inter-university cooperation, digital development, quality assurance, compatibility and teacher mobility through the AUF, reported ADIAC.

Abéna talked of the expectations, hopes, priorities, ambitions and new challenges in science, education and training UDSN must undertake in order to benefit.

He informed Khalbous of the forthcoming creation by UNESCO of a masters degree in curricula design, and of the intention to increase UDSN’s international networking.

The accord with AUF took place about six weeks after UDSN entered into a partnership with ACPE, the Congolese Agency for Employment, to support graduates’ access to their first job on leaving university. – Compiled by Jane Marshall.

This article is drawn from local media. University World News cannot vouch for the accuracy of the original reports.