HIGHER learning institutions in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania are among ten universities chosen to host African centres of excellence earmarked for future outstanding academic outputs.
Centres of excellence would also produce materials that could be sources of income amounting to 67 billion/-. Prof Jude Ssebuwufu from the Uganda Martyrs University says in his paper on the 'Role of Centres of Excellence Initiatives in Industrialisation,' during the recent 6th forum on Academia, Public Private Partnership for East Africa in Nairobi, that the selection was based on proposals whose focus was aimed at addressing specific development objectives.
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