WE ARE BUILDING THE NEXT AOSARS.
We are building the next AOSARS.
We are widening what we teach, sharpening how it works, and renewing why we exist, all built around the way research is practised now. Here is what is changing, and why your learning carries on uninterrupted.
If you are studying with us now, nothing stops for you.
This upgrade does not interrupt your learning. Your courses stay open, your progress is saved, and your records are safe. Keep logging in, keep watching lessons, and keep finishing the work you have started. No enrolment is cancelled, no payment is affected, and no certificate is delayed.
What stays live, and what goes quiet.
So there is no doubt, here is exactly what continues as normal and what pauses until we reopen on 1 July.
Live throughout
- Your current courses and every lesson inside them
- Saved progress, learning history and completion records
- Account login and access to everything you have bought
- Certificates already earned, and those in progress
Quiet for the rebuild
- New product pages, while we finish and test them
- Some catalogue sections under active redesign
- Day-to-day WhatsApp support and routine messages
- Parts of the site being re-engineered for speed
Research has moved. We are moving with it.
When AOSARS opened, the promise was simple. Make rigorous research methodology learnable, practical, and within reach for postgraduate researchers across Africa. Five years on, that promise still holds. The world it lives in, however, has changed a great deal.
Research itself has moved. Artificial intelligence now sits inside almost every stage of the research journey. It shapes how a literature search begins, how data is read, and how integrity is judged. Tools that did not exist when we started have become part of daily academic life.
So we are taking a short, deliberate step. From 22 June to 1 July, parts of the platform will be quieter than usual while we rebuild. This is not us slowing down. It is us re-engineering the experience to serve you better the moment you return.
A wider school, sharper at its core.
We are re-leveraging the skills, capability and goodwill we already hold, and pointing them where research is heading.
AI in research, taught properly.
New courses on using artificial intelligence well, and ethically, woven through the whole catalogue, from search to writing to integrity.
Transition courses.
Life after the doctorate or masters. Moving into consultancy, or into academia.
Research for the NGO sector
Practical skills for those who research inside development and non-profit work.
Expanded coaching
More one to one support, across more stages of the research journey.
Sharper foundations
Existing products and processes made tighter and smoother, and current courses upgraded.
Future-ready skill sets
New skills for the work ahead, built on the capability we already hold. The full strength of our platform, put to work for you.
A smoother, more accountable journey
From sign-up to certificate, fewer steps and clearer accountability, so you always know what you are getting and where you stand.
A renewed mission and vision.
We are resizing and redefining who AOSARS is, so our purpose stays responsive to a fast-changing research and working world. The same heart, aimed more clearly at the need in front of us.
The difference you should be able to feel.
When the platform comes back, this is what should be clearly better than before.
- ✓A school that reflects research as it works now, including the responsible use of AI in academic work.
- ✓A wider catalogue, with new courses for the AI era, the NGO sector, and life after the degree.
- ✓A smoother, calmer experience, with friction removed from the steps that used to slow you down.
- ✓A clearer mission, and a school that is easier to hold to its word at every point.
Be the first to know when we reopen.
Join our WhatsApp list and we will send you one message the moment the new AOSARS is live on 1 July. The upgraded courses and the new catalogue, the day they go live.
One message about the relaunch. You can leave the list at any time.
