AFRICA HIGHER EDUCATION IS MAINSTREAMING INCLUSIVITY INTO SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, CONFERENCE TOLD

  Universities and other institutions of higher learning should incorporate well-structured capacity building programmes that target women at all levels of the academic life within strategic policies to promote gender inclusivity in science, technology and innovation (STI), an African HE conference has been told. Prof Domwini Dabire Kuupole, the former vice chancellor at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), in Ghana, said such an initiative would help universities design specific programmes on training and mentoring, with the aim of ensuring more women are ...


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