Dr Violet Makuku, the Director for the Global Quality Assurance Association (GQAA), Quality Assurance Specialist and Consultant, has a long-standing history of working with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity in Agriculture (RUFORUM), which dates back as early as 2017. She was one of the authors who contributed a QA book chapter to one of the best RUFORUM Tertiary Agriculture Education textbooks that was published by CABI in 2022. In August 2024, Dr Makuku was engaged by RUFORUM as a facilitator for the Quality Assurance (QA) workshop in Higher Education for RUFORUM’s QA training of the African Continent’s Higher Education Regulatory Bodies, Registrars, Deans, Directors and QA personnel during its 2nd triennial conference in Windhoek, Namibia. RUFORUM is once again engaging Dr Violet Makuku to conduct an online training of its member institutions on QA in institutional and programme accreditation (15th – 19th September 2025), followed by a similar physical training in Gaborone, Botswana, in December 2025.
All RUFORUM member institutions are encouraged to take part in these capacity-building events. We also urge other entities to consider joining RUFORUM, a network with an excellent track record in its operations.