He said this during a 4-day Annual Review Meeting that convened in Kigali between the University of Rwanda and Swedish partners to discuss activity plan for the financial year 2018-2019, on Monday, 14th may 2018.
“Supporting education is the best way to support the development of Rwanda and Sweden was the 1st country to believe that Rwanda needed a strong and well-functioning higher education.” said Murigande.
According to Raymond Ndikumana, the Overall Coordinator of UR-Sweden Programme, the Programme contributed to UR’s ambition of becoming a research-led university.
“On top of a dedicated line and mechanisms for doing research, the Programme has supported areas of innovation and sustainable ICT, research expertise in many different ways through trainings for PhD supervisors and improvement for skills in research management to mention but a few” said Ndikumana.
At least 29 PhD students have graduated thanks to the Programme support. 33,000 e-journals already subscribed to ease access to online content while 9 in-house masters’ programmes are being run.
The meeting also discussed proposals & letters of intents that will mark the extension of collaboration up to 2024. The new partnership is expected to result into critical mass of training in areas of poverty reduction and sustainable development while mainstreaming gender, environment and other crosscutting areas.
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