Higher education professionals, industry, policy and civil society are perfecting plans to discuss the greatest challenges and opportunities facing African higher education and broader society.
This step will be achieved during the Times Higher Education Africa Universities Summit 2025 a programme that will look at United Leadership: Harnessing African Education for sustainable growth.
According to the organisers, part of what the education stakeholders across the globe would deliberate on between 18–20 March 2025 in Kigali, Rwanda will explore the importance of equitable partnerships for Africa, promoting sustainability in higher education, harnessing digital transformation for good, and improving the quality of research and employability.
Speaking about the summit, Phil Baty, THE’s Chief Global Affairs Officer said the programme will discuss equitable partnerships and how inclusive and balanced partnerships across and outside the continent can foster greater regional collaboration for higher education.
According to Baty, there will also be a discussion on Sustainability in and for higher education: How context-specific sustainable development can position African institutions to lead the way in addressing environmental, economic and social challenges for long-term regional growth
Digital transformation: Opportunities and challenges presented by digital innovation and technology for expanding access to quality education and improving institutional efficiency in Africa
Research and employability: The power and potential of leading, quality African research as the continent works to align higher education with the employability needs of the future workforce
Baty said Africa is vital to the future success of the world, and the organisers are delighted to be hosting such a timely and relevant event to explore development in the higher education and sustainability sectors.
“This event in Kigali will be a real highlight and gathering of great leadership to showcase the growth of this exciting emerging education hub, and Africa’s position at the centre of this,” Baty said.
Some of the keynote speakers at the summit will include: Philip Cotton, vice-chancellor, the University of Global Health Equity; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, chancellor, of the University of Johannesburg; DeWayne Frazier, President and Vice-Chancellor, the American University of Nigeria
The agenda will also feature two data masterclasses run by one of THE’s expert data scientists to delve into the methodology and results of THE Interdisciplinary Science Rankings 2025 and THE Impact Rankings 2025.
The Interdisciplinary Science Rankings recognise, incentivise and celebrate interdisciplinary science in higher education, whilst the THE Impact Rankings assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to benchmark higher education institutions’ academic and scientific performance.
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