Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone. Knowledge is recognising what you know and what you don’t. Access to university should be determined by people’s ability to learn not what they can afford. “Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
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Purpose and Objectives

Our Purpose

The purpose of the Chair shall be to promote an integrated system of research, teaching and training, as well as community engagement and communication. It will facilitate collaboration between high-level, internationally recognized researchers and teaching staff of the Host Institution and other institutions in the country, as well as elsewhere in the region and in other regions of the world.

Our Objectives

  • reinforce teaching and learning in higher education through the professionalization of the academic staff in higher education institutions, both public and private;
  • exchange resources and share best practices by such means as the organization of conferences, symposium and seminars and setting up of a consortium of teaching and learning centres in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region;
  • increase research output and generation of publications in Higher Education in order to improve the ranking of Mauritian Universities in the international scene;
  • set up international partnerships with universities across the global North and South especially in the provision of post graduate studies in interdisciplinary fields like digital health and well-being;
  • ensure capacity building of academic staff of the Universities in developing and aligning curriculum, pedagogy and assessment within diverse learning contexts and develop joint research projects with universities in the region; and,
  • cooperate closely with UNESCO, other UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks on relevant programmes and activities.