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| Tuesday, 11 May 2010 14:34 |
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Professor Mayunga Nkunya, one of Tanzania’s most prominent academics, has been appointed the executive secretary of the Inter-University Council of East Africa (IUCEA). He assumes his duties as the executive head of the Uganda-based inter-regional academic body in November, this year, according to a statement issued by the council on Friday. Prof Nkunya will take over from Prof Chacha Nyaigoti-Chacha, a Kenyan, who has served as the IUCEA executive secretary for a couple of years now. Prof Nkunya is currently the executive secretary of the Tanzania Commission of Universities (TCU), a body set up a few years ago to oversee and regulate the higher education sector. He taught botany for many years at the University of Dar es Salaam and rose to become the chief academic officer from October 1999 to December 2006. He is expected to serve IUCEA on a five-year non-renewable contract, said the statement signed by the outgoing executive secretary of the regional body. Also appointed is Dr Jean Bosco Butera from Rwanda who will become IUCEA's deputy executive secretary from October this year for a three-year contract which can be renewed once. Dr Butera is currently the executive secretary of to the UN Affiliated University for Peace based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to his Ethiopian posting, he had worked with the University of Rwanda as vice rector (Academic Affairs) between 1995 and 2003, the statement added. IUCEA is a regional inter-governmental organisation whose mission is to encourage and develop mutually beneficial collaboration between universities in EA and between them and governments and other organisations, both public and private. Its main objectives include facilitating contact between the universities of EA, providing a forum for discussion on a wide range of academic and other matters relating to higher education and helping in maintaining high and comparable academic standards in the region. There are 76 universities Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi and Rwanda which are members to the Council, which is one of the institutions of the East African Community (EAC). Add this page to your favorite Social Bookmarking websites           |
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