UCT VC centre stage at U7+ Alliance Summit
(WorldNews Environment)

University of Cape Town (UCT) Vice-Chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng was part of a five-member panel that addressed international media at the close of the inaugural U7+ Alliance Summit on 10 July in Paris, where UCT was the only South African university represented. The two-day summit of world universities, which took place under the high patronage of French President Emmanuel Macron, saw 47 university leaders from 18 countries meet in the French capital to formalise and vote on a series of founding principles, and for universities to commit to associated concrete actions to tackle global issues, within their own communities, in the context of the upcoming G7 Summit in Biarritz next...