MoUs to boost international academic collaboration and quality assurance in Higher Education

Three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs), aimed at strengthening academic co-operation, institutional capacity and quality assurance in higher education, will be signed soon.

Thus, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed between the University of Mauritius and the Centennial College of Applied Arts and Technology, Toronto, Canada, to establish a formal framework for academic co-operation across strategically significant areas. Those areas include academic collaboration in research, teaching and learning; exchange of educational resource materials; the assessment of units for credit for prior learning; student and staff mobility programmes; and design and delivery of special short-term academic programmes and projects of mutual benefit.

Another MoU involves the University of Technology, Mauritius, and Bursa Uludağ University, Türkiye. It sets out avenues of collaboration in student and staff exchanges; faculty exchange on equal and reciprocal terms, with visiting academics serving for an academic semester or shorter period; and the exchange of teaching tools, textbooks, and monographs. The Agreement also covers the organisation of lectures, joint meetings, seminars, and webinars to develop the pedagogical competencies of faculty members, and the applied academic training of students on the basis of mutual exchange.

Thirdly, the Higher Education Commission and the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education will sign an MoU to, among others, provide for the assessment and accreditation of Higher Education Institutions, their internal systems of quality and courses and/or programmes assurance.

Moreover, the Agreement is expected to enhance the understanding of each institution’s approach to ensuring quality in higher education and the respective processes in place, and to facilitate the exchange of information, including capacity building. It paves the way too for the sharing of best practices in the execution of the functions of the Parties that will help them become more efficient and effective towards achieving their objects and potentially, mutual recognition of qualifications and standards.

21 April 2026

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