Cape campus to be part of continental university, says Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology will become part of African Continental University‚ African Union (AU) Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in Durban on Monday. The university was one of five "campuses of excellence" across Africa that would focus on space sciences‚ said Dlamini-Zuma during her swan song state of the continent address at the Hilton Hotel. She said one of the objectives of the AU in its Agenda 2063 was the development of education and creating access to higher education for Africans‚ whose population was getting younger. "Education is the greatest equaliser between the rich and the poor‚" she said. Dlamini-Zuma stressed the importance of skills development‚ hence the establishment of the African Continental University to harness critical skills, which were currently not adequately offered by many African universities. "There are 10-million university students qualifying every year in Africa. The number of graduates has grown exponentially‚" ...
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