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Mauritius Cabinet Approves Regulations on AI Use in Higher Education
Mauritius's Cabinet approved new 2026 regulations governing how universities and higher-education institutions may use artificial intelligence, following through on the country's national AI strategy.
By Africa AI Ledger Desk · 22 July 2026 · 1 min read
The Cabinet of Mauritius has approved new regulations for 2026 aimed at governing the use of artificial intelligence within the country's higher-education institutions, extending the reach of its national AI policy framework into the university sector.
Closing a governance gap
The regulations respond to a rapid rise in AI tool use among students and academic staff, which had outpaced existing academic-integrity and quality-assurance rules at Mauritian universities. Officials said the new framework is intended to give institutions clear guardrails for permissible AI use in teaching, assessment and research, rather than leaving each university to set its own ad hoc policy.
Consistent with the national strategy
The higher-education rules follow the FAIR Guidelines that accompanied Mauritius's National AI Strategy launched in April 2026, applying the strategy's fairness, accountability, inclusivity and responsibility principles to a specific sector for the first time. The move shows the government intends to translate its national-level AI ethics framework into binding, sector-specific rules rather than leaving it purely as guidance.
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