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This context, coupled with a young population, meant \u201cthere is huge momentum, if the circumstances are right, for a university in science and technology, and we believe that we should be a part of and that will be part of accelerating Africa\u2019s progress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ezzati added there were countries in Latin America and East Asia with \u201cworld-class\u201d institutions, \u201cand there is no reason why there cannot be institutions like that within Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>African universities have long had to\u00a0battle a brain drain of emerging researchers, and Professor Ezzati said he hoped the hub would help develop an ecosystem\u00a0that means researchers feel \u201cthey\u2019re not taking a hit to their career\u201d by remaining in the continent.<\/p>\n<p>UK universities have been attempting to make partnerships with African institutions more equitable in recent years, in a bid to\u00a0rebalance the power in the generation of scientific knowledge\u00a0as African\u00a0institutions face\u00a0greater battles for funding.<\/p>\n<p>The hub becomes the latest opened by Imperial, after it\u00a0set up centres in San Francisco\u00a0and\u00a0Singapore earlier this year. It also follows moves from UK universities to open branch campuses in the region, including the University of Coventry and Lancaster University.<\/p>\n<p>It was also launched alongside various fellowship programmes in AI and mathematics, and a new network in urban health and climate resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Chi Onwurah MP, chair of the UK Parliament\u2019s Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee,\u00a0said that the hub had the potential to \u201cboost deep tech and scientific research and drive the benefits of new discoveries and commercialisation opportunities in West Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">juliette.rowsell@timeshighereducation.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial College London has become the first UK university to open a permanent base for science and technology research in Africa.\u00a0 The world-leading university said that the Imperial Global Ghana hub, based in Accra, will strengthen collaboration on research, technology, education and entrepreneurship between West Africa and the UK.\u00a0 Research at the hub will focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":250505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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