On 23-24 November a side event of the 3^rd EU-Africa Summit took place in Cape Town entitled “Nyerere / Supporting Academic Mobility and Revitalisation of Higher Education in Africa”. The conference had a two-pronged objective: to formulate policy messages on the importance of higher education for development, to be incorporated in the agenda of the EU-Africa Summit which took place in Tripoli on 29-30 November 2010; and, to launch the expansion of the Mwalimu Nyerere African Scholarship Scheme which covers a range of initiatives to boost mobility for students and staff in higher education, promoting research and capacity building and acting to stem the numbers of qualified graduates leaving for jobs outside the continent.