WELCOME TO THE PAN AFRICAN UNIVERSITY
The Pan African University (PAU) is the culmination of continental initiatives of the Commission of the African Union to revitalize higher education and research in Africa, under the Second Decade of Education for Africa and the consolidated Plan of Action of Science and Technology for Africa. It will exemplify excellence, enhance the attractiveness and global competitiveness of African higher education and research and establish the African University at the core of Africa’s development.
The PAU will greatly boost the population and retention of high-level human resources and quality knowledge outputs and be able to attract the best intellectual capacity from all over the world. Africa acknowledges the fact that social and economic development is not possible without substantive investment in higher education and research. The PAU was launched as the African Union (AU) undertook the evaluation of the Second Decade of Education for Africa.
The African Union Commission identified critical themes within the five institutes of the Pan African University, as key to the development of Africa and attainment of the vision of the African Union. These are hosted in the different PAU Institutes as follows:
- Water and Energy Sciences (including Climate Change) (PAUWES, Algeria);
- Basic Science, Technology and Innovation (PAUSTI, Kenya);
- Life and Earth Sciences (including Health and Agriculture) (PAULESI, Nigeria);
- Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences (PAUGHSS, Cameroon);
- and Space Sciences (PAUSS, South Africa).
The PAU Rectorate is based in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
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The Pan African University is a network university of the African Union,
fostering entrepreneurship and employability, providing high quality
post-graduate education and applied research in key development areas.
RECTORATE
The Rectorate is responsible for the daily management of the PAU and is headed by the Rector who is the Chief Executive Officer of the PAU.
At the Malabo Summit held in June 2015, African Heads of State and Government adopted Decision EX.CL/Dec.829 to host the Rectorate of the Panafrican University. Following this decision, a high level panel was set up by Decision EX.CL/Dec.829 (XXV) to designate the country that will host the PAU Rectorate. Considering the report by this panel, the Executive Council selected Cameroon as host country and recommended the designation of Cameroon by the Ordinary session of the African Union Assembly who endorsed the selection in January 2016.
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M. Sorie Sama, étudiant de l’institut de l’Université panafricaine de Gouvernance, des Sciences humaines et Sociales (PAUGHSS), a, lors de la visite du Commissaire en charge de l’Education des Sciences et Technologies et de l’Innovation, S.E. le…
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Le Rectorat de l’Université panafricaine
Le Rectorat de l’Université panafricaine auparavant basé au siège de la Commission de l’Union africaine a été délocalisé à Yaoundé, conformément à la décision des chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de l’Union africaine lors du sommet de Malabo en 2014,…
