The University of Cape Town (UCT) last month became the first African member of the International Alliance of Research Universities, whose 11 members include some of the world’s leading universities.
UCT is the first new member since the alliance was established ten years ago.
The founding universities are the Australian National University; ETH Zurich; the National University of Singapore; Peking University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Cambridge; the University of Copenhagen; the University of Oxford; the University of Tokyo; and Yale University.