2014 Annual Report

The year 2014 marked the beginning of the second phase (2014-17) of the three phases of the implementation of our Vision 2020. This phase is about adding a solid and focused academic core to the foundations we have built so far. In order to move forward purposefully, we need to reflect on our achievements, especially those that relte to our academic project. Allow me to briefly mention some of the highlights in 2014.

The first of these achievements was the broad-based curriculum transformation process, we introduced in 2010 and concluded in 2012, which we call STEPS (Strategic Transformation of Educational Programmes and Structures). As part of this programme, we reviewed our curricula to make them more demand-driven and user-oriented. The year 2014 witnessed the first fruits of our intensive labour in the
four new programmes that were introduced. With the STEPS project and many other curriculum development initiatives, the relevance, excellence and quality of our academic programme have improved appreciably.  CUT continues to invest in research development as one of its strategic priorities. In 2014, two research centres and research units were established.