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The soft-spoken Manager acknowledged that she has a lot of work to do but said she is ready for the challenge. She said she would do a lot of of benchmarking with other Universities across the country. “In as much we are leaders in research, there is a component that we need to introduce – institutional research. I am also looking forward to collaboration with other Divisions and colleagues,” she concluded.
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