Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana professor Ernest Aryeetey has been appointed as secretary-general of the African Research Universities Alliance (Arua) to drive a collaborative initiative formed by research-intensive universities to strengthen research and postgraduate training on the continent. Aura, established in 2015, is a strategic alliance among the universities, which aims to incorporate distinctive fields of expertise to achieve complementary and coordinated programmes of research and training, including addressing the key development priorities of the African continent. Sixteen partner universities are represented in Arua, of which six are in South Africa. These are the universities of the Witwatersrand, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal and Pretoria, as well as Rhodes University.
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