Report of the third ECA/AAU conference of Vice-Chancellors, Presidents and Reactors of institutions of higher learning in Africa

Abstract

The Second Conference of Vice-Chancellors, Presidents and Rectors of Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa was convened in Mbabane, Swaziland in February 1985 under the theme, "The Response of the Institutions of Higher Learning to Africa's Rapidly Deteriorating Social and Economic Conditions". At that Conference, the Vice-Chancellors, Presidents and Rectors of Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa, reviewed the exogenous and the endogenous factors that led. to the social and economic crisis which constricted Africa's development in the first half of the 1980's and posed a real threat to the continent's survival as a political and socio-economic entity. In defining their role as agents of development in reversing the trend towards the total economic collapse of the continent, the Institutions of Higher Learning in Africa agreed on a set of action measures which would highten their contributions to overall national and regional efforts to lay the foundations required for Africa's self-reliant and self-sustained social and economic development.