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Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)
Woburn House, 20-24 Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9HF
UK
- Telephone
- +44 20 7380 6700
- Fax
- +44 20 7387 2655
- Website
- http://www.acu.ac.uk
- Chair
- Professor Brenda Gourley
- Secretary-General
- Professor John Tarrant
ACU is a voluntary association of 500 universities throughout the Commonwealth. Its mission is to strengthen the higher education institutions within the association through international cooperation and understanding.
Activities
Organises major meetings of Commonwealth universities and their representatives; acts as a liaison office and general information centre on Commonwealth universities, promoting their interests internationally; researches and disseminates information about policies and best practice in higher education management; through its appointments, advertising and publicity service, provides a range of services to assist member universities in filling staff vacancies; through its women's programme strives to redress the gender imbalance in higher education management; and provides secretariats for the UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission and the Commonwealth Universities Study Abroad Consortium (CUSAC). Administers a number of other scholarship and fellowship programmes, organises a wide variety of training workshops, and has a reference library of 18,500 volumes.
Publications
CUDOS (Commonwealth Universities Database Online Service), Commonwealth Universities Yearbook, Who's Who of Executive Heads, International Awards 2001+, Universities and Development, Review of the Year, ACU Bulletin (4 p.a.), Research Opportunities (3 p.a.)