Hisham Abdelsalam, the president of the Egyptian E-Learning University, declared that the
university has joined the Association of African Universities in a qualitative step to enhance
the joint cooperation with higher education institutions. This enables the university to share
its expertise in distance education and to adapt all modern technologies to serve the
educational process at the level of the continent based on the international experience that the
university enjoys.
He explained that the university's compass is in constant search for national and international
gatherings in the quality of higher education so that the university can improve its curricula
and teaching methods, and benefit from the experiences of other universities to familiarize its
unique experience with other universities.
This has already been achieved by joining the Association of African Universities, which
represents a step on the right path towards a better future for the university in terms of
education, teaching, research and administration, as the Union is the voice of the African
higher education community.
Professor Abdelsalam added that the mission of the Union of African Universities is to raise the quality of higher education in Africa and to strengthen its contribution to the development efforts by encouraging cooperation among its members by providing support for its core
tasks of teaching, learning, research and involvement in society and encouraging constructive thinking and building consensus on issues that affect the higher education in Africa.
He pointed out that the Association of African Universities is a non-profit organization established in Rabat, Morocco, in 1967 by African universities to encourage cooperation between them and the international academic community. Moreover, it currently includes in its membership 208 institutions concerned with higher education and scientific research from all regions of the continent and their linguistic groups.