The African University College of Communications(AUCC) and the University of Bahamas(UOB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding today in Nassau with the objective of establishing partnership and collaboration between the two institutions.
The MOU was signed by AUCC President Kojo Yankah and the President of UOB Janyne Hodder.

The MOU seeks essentially to provide persons seeking higher education with a wider range of options for achieving their educational goals and also to promote scholarship.
The agreement will facilitate the enrolment of students and faculty of each institution in undergraduate and graduate course and the exchange of faculty and students for purposes of cultural enrichment, study, internship and teaching.

The MOU also provides for joint research activities, exchange of students and faculty for purposes of research, guest lectures and seminars, collaboration in the publication of scholarly documents, exchange of instructional materials, educational research and other educational expertise.

The first batch of students and faculty from the University of Bahamas will undertake a Study Abroad programme at the AUCC from July 2009. In brief remarks after the signing ceremony, President Hodder said she looked forward to the opportunity of ‘exploring frontiers of knowledge around communications, patterns of culture and the need for students to have international exchange experiences’. On his part, President Yankah expressed his delight at’ the possibility for staff and students of AUCC to be the bridge for scholarly and cultural understanding between Africans and peoples of the Caribbean’.