More academic traffic please, say DAAD alumni

In pictures... (from left): Dr Max Price and delegates at the DAAD gathering; Prof Neville Alexander, a Humboldt alumnus, delivered the event's keynote lecture; Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor was one of the panellists on the last day of the conference.

From 13 to 15 April some 130 South African and international alumni from the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, plus a slew of local and international higher education leaders, met at UCT to reflect on and to encourage further academic exchange between South Africa and Germany.

The alumni conference was themed Change by Exchange: Higher education and research transformation in South Africa and Germany.