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d) There are periods when CARTA organizes meetings for participants from partner institutions to discuss common challenges and solutions. Participants write a personal commitment, which is then emailed back to participants to ensure they keep their commitment. With reference to the upcoming Faculty and Administrative Staff( FAS) meeting on July 17 th to 19th in Kigali, Rwanda, this should be done to all university representatives who will attend the meeting.
e) When staff from universities are trained in certain areas and they do not have access to areas they can assist, they are likely to just sit and do nothing. Access should be created within universities to help in their career development. f)
There is certainly need for an overall CARTA coordinator in each university. The person coordinating the CARTA program has to be at university wide leadership. He / she should be in touch with the research activities constantly and be able to brief the VC.
g) There should be a plan for coordinators to come from CARTA meetings and report on what was discussed there to the VC.
h) There is need for more interaction between the coordinator and those who have benefitted from CARTA trainings.
3. Publications – there was a proposal to get all feedback from participants together in one document, send back to all members for further comments, give a deadline, make changes again and finalize the paper for publishing.
Recommendations
a) It was agreed that the draft paper to be circulated to members for comments then changes would be made and incorporated before publishing can be done.
b) CARTA should continue supporting the member universities. It is hoped that the publication will help people who are not aware of what CARTA is all about.
c) The VCs agreed that perhaps a declaration should be made on some of the issues discussed at the meeting.
d) The publication would form the basis for negotiations with African governments to fund postgraduate education.
e) The VCs to consider publishing the paper in non-peer reviewed journals as well for wider circulation.
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CARTA’ s 2 nd Vice Chancellor’ s Meeting – Report of meeting proceedings – July 10-11, 2017