EU-Africa Harmonisation and Tuning Workshop: going double

On 25-27 March, a few days before the EU-Africa Summit, representatives of EU and African universities met in Brussels for the "Harmonisation of African Higher Education and Tuning Workshop on Credits and Portability of Qualifications", jointly organised by the European Commission and the African Union Commission.
The aim of the workshop was to bring together higher education stakeholders involved in the Harmonisation and Tuning pilot initiative in Africa and their EU counterparts in order to discuss credit transfer, portability of qualifications and Quality Assurance initiatives in Africa. The main topics of the event were student mobility, recognition of qualifications and credits, and the development of new and joint degree programmes. See more...