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Jul 28, 2016 News

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics), Dr. Barbara Reynolds, have proceeded overseas for two weeks on official engagements. The university officials are slated to attend the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) 2016 Conference of University Leaders, at the Accra International Conference Centre in Ghana.

The conference is being held under the theme: “Defining the responsible university:
society, impact and growth”.
This biennial conference aims to “provide a platform for senior university staff to debate key issues in higher education, and explore shared solutions with a diverse range of international colleagues.” Delegates attending the three-day conference, from countries across the Commonwealth of Nations, are expected to discuss the impact of universities on innovation, research and development, civil society, funding and access, employment and the role and place of government and the corporate sector in building the skilled leaders of tomorrow.
Additionally, the conference will bring together top academics and high-profile higher education policy makers from within and outside the Commonwealth to discuss the role universities play in social and economic development, with the aim of helping commonwealth university leaders to better understand, promote and build strong partnerships, and manage change within higher education.
Among the speakers will be John Dramani Mahama, President of Ghana, Patricia Scotland, Secretary General of the Commonwealth and Mr. Kofi Anan, Chancellor of The University of Ghana and former Secretary General of the United Nations.
The next leg of the UG team’s overseas engagement will be a stopover in the United Kingdom. While in London, the Vice-Chancellor is scheduled to have a lunch meeting with Guyanese-born Baroness Valerie Amos, Director of the famed School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. And the Vice-Chancellor and Dr. Reynolds will pay a courtesy call on Mr. Frederick Hamley Case, Guyana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
High on the agenda of the UG officials’ visits is the meeting and reception with UG alumni and other interested stakeholders on Sunday, July 31, at the Guyana High Commission, Palace Court, and Bayswater Road, London.
This planned engagement with the members of the Guyanese Diaspora in London is similar to the meet and greet session that was held at the Turkeyen campus in May, and at York College in New York in June, and they are part of the Vice-Chancellor’s continuing efforts to forge or strengthen strategic alliances with stakeholders at home and abroad.
Later on in the week, the team will meet with Prof. David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London Southbank University.
Discussions will explore opportunities for partnership/collaboration between that institution and The University of Guyana. Discussions with officials at the Commonwealth Secretariat are also planned.

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