The 1st RUFORUM Triennial Conference, 2021
The Seventh Africa Higher Education and RUFORUM Triennial Conference is set under the theme ???Operationalising Higher Education for Innovation, Industrialisation, Inclusion and Sustainable Economic Development in Africa: A call for action??? that responds to the urgent needs for the African governments, development partners, private sector and citizenry to take actions to invest in higher education.
This Triennial conference was convened with the following objectives:
- Catalyse investment in Higher Education for human capital development in Africa
- Promote international linkages and partnerships for excellence in Higher Education
- Strengthen collaboration and mutual learning to spur innovation and industrialisation for economic transformation in Africa
- Promote youth employment and skills acquisition for development
- Strengthen University-Private sector business linkages