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vince · #1 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 12:57 PM

None of Nigeria's 75 universities fell within the first 50 bracket in the latest Webometric ranking of "Top 100 African Universities" released on Monday.

Five of the nation's "first generation" universities, which made the list of 100, however came far behind universities in such small countries as Malawi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burkina Fasso, Buaro, Uganda and Ghana.

The result of the ranking, released in Abuja through the National Universities Commission (NUC), showed Nigeria's premier university, the University Of Ibadan (UI), placing 57th, followed by the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile - Ife (69th), University of Benin (78th), University of Lagos (90th) and University of Jos (98th).

In the "Top 1000 Web-Ranked Universities," the United States and Canada produced a total of 129 universities within the Top 200 category and 455 within the Top 1000 category. The performance of other continents showed that Europe had 55 universities in the Top 200 and 358 within the Top 1000 category; Asia (seven in the Top 200 and 80 in the Top 1000 category); Oceania (six in the Top 200 and 38 in the Top 1000); Latin America (three in the 200 and 21 in the Top 1000) and; Africa (none in the Top 200 and six in the Top 1000 category).
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buda atum · #2 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 01:01 PM

Least it seems we now know what the problem is:

"He claimed that the universities that shoved Nigerian universities to the back row were "those with lesser research outputs but with better Internet showcase of their comparatively fewer publications." "

Now we just got to go fix it, and move up the rankings.

Atlakos · #3 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 02:02 PM

It is sad to know our african universities are not ranked as high as the rest of the world.

Since we are on the subject

UK or US who do you think profides the best education for kids. I had the debate with my friend, who swears by UK education as compared to US. I finally agreed with her.

I guess is is good when it comes to Graduate school. They do have good research departments and excellent professors though the best ones are foreigners (India, Europe,Canadians etc)

What will US do without foreigners.

peculiar · #4 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 02:05 PM

Oh no!!!

Atlakos · #5 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 02:13 PM

here is the webometrics list for africa

http://www.webometrics.info/top100_c...ont=africa.htm

you can search rest of the world if you like.

Seems like South Africa tops it all. mmmm I wonder why?

here is Europe

http://www.webometrics.info/top100_c...ont=europe.htm

some of these statistics can be biased sometimes.

zenke · #6 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by buda atum

Least it seems we now know what the problem is:

"He claimed that the universities that shoved Nigerian universities to the back row were "those with lesser research outputs but with better Internet showcase of their comparatively fewer publications." "

Now we just got to go fix it, and move up the rankings.

Naija na when we go improve wit all dis now?

buda atum · #7 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 02:35 PM

RECENTLY, the Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Professor Chinedu Nebo, declared at a press conference that he had signed a backlog of certificates of graduands going back to 10 years. The import was that for a decade, graduates of the university were given mere sheets of paper indicating that they took a degree from the university. While the delay lasted, the UNN authorities sent a bad signal to all and sundry. All the convocation ceremonies that were held were mere rituals, without the presentation of certificates.

What led the UNN to this impasse that kept certificates waiting for 10 years? Is this reflective of incompetence on the part of past administrators? Was this the result of the crisis that rocked the university in the 1990s? Has this not subjected graduates of the institution to embarrassment? Are there some universities which are currently in the quagmire that was the case with UNN? Has the National Universities Commission (NUC) no role to play in ensuring that graduands get their certificates?

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Originally Posted by zenke

Naija na when we go improve wit all dis now?

I guess we'll improve when we know whats stopping us from improving!

Joi · #8 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 02:38 PM

na wa o

zenke · #9 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by buda atum

RECENTLY, the Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), Professor Chinedu Nebo, declared at a press conference that he had signed a backlog of certificates of graduands going back to 10 years. The import was that for a decade, graduates of the university were given mere sheets of paper indicating that they took a degree from the university. While the delay lasted, the UNN authorities sent a bad signal to all and sundry. All the convocation ceremonies that were held were mere rituals, without the presentation of certificates.

What led the UNN to this impasse that kept certificates waiting for 10 years? Is this reflective of incompetence on the part of past administrators? Was this the result of the crisis that rocked the university in the 1990s? Has this not subjected graduates of the institution to embarrassment? Are there some universities which are currently in the quagmire that was the case with UNN? Has the National Universities Commission (NUC) no role to play in ensuring that graduands get their certificates?

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I guess we'll improve when we know whats stopping us from improving!

I hope so

buda atum · #10 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 03:04 PM

....we don't have enough schools?

Nigeria Needs 70 More Varsities, Says Obasanjo

President Olusegun Obasanjo has lauded the initiative of Gombe State government in establishing a university, assuring that the Federal Government would continue to encourage the establishment of both private and state universities in the country.

Addressing the pioneer stuadents of Gombe State University on Monday during his visit to the state, Obasanjo said there was still a shortfall in the number of universities in the country.

Despite the existing 75 federal, state and private universities in the country, he argued, the nation needed additional 70 universities to take care of the growing number of students from secondary schools.

The President, who commended the institution’s management for taking the challenge of moulding the young university, however, charged them to use their wealth of experience to take the university to greater heights.

He urged the pioneer students to be focussed so as to realise the state’s government objectives for setting up the university.

By so doing, they would be of service to their society, state and nation at large, he said.

He sermonised, “It is important that whatever you are doing you do it for the benefit of yourself, the society and the nation at large,” adding:”You must utilise your education to make a meaningful impact on the society”.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo, who is on a two-day working visit to Gombe State, has commissioned the state airport, university, the reconstructed Gombe Specialist Hospital and the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Alhassan Aliyu

Special Correspondent, Gombe

angeleyez · #11 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 08:05 PM

We all know what the problem is.

angeleyez · #12 (**permalink**) 03-14-2006, 08:07 PM

How is having more varsities increase our chances at being in the top 100 or 200?

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Originally Posted by buda atum

....we don't have enough schools?

Nigeria Needs 70 More Varsities, Says Obasanjo

President Olusegun Obasanjo has lauded the initiative of Gombe State government in establishing a university, assuring that the Federal Government would continue to encourage the establishment of both private and state universities in the country.

Addressing the pioneer stuadents of Gombe State University on Monday during his visit to the state, Obasanjo said there was still a shortfall in the number of universities in the country.

Despite the existing 75 federal, state and private universities in the country, he argued, the nation needed additional 70 universities to take care of the growing number of students from secondary schools.

The President, who commended the institution’s management for taking the challenge of moulding the young university, however, charged them to use their wealth of experience to take the university to greater heights.

He urged the pioneer students to be focussed so as to realise the state’s government objectives for setting up the university.

By so doing, they would be of service to their society, state and nation at large, he said.

He sermonised, “It is important that whatever you are doing you do it for the benefit of yourself, the society and the nation at large,” adding:”You must utilise your education to make a meaningful impact on the society”.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo, who is on a two-day working visit to Gombe State, has commissioned the state airport, university, the reconstructed Gombe Specialist Hospital and the School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Alhassan Aliyu

Special Correspondent, Gombe

buda atum · #13 (**permalink**) 03-17-2006, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by angeleyez

How is having more varsities increase our chances at being in the top 100 or 200?

I do not, personally think, that the aim of a University should be to be in a top whatever-many top chart, but I do believe we do not have enough of them.

An increase in competition would surely help people chose what school they wish to learn at, instead of the current state of things whereby one is without choice of where and what to learn.

buda atum · #14 (**permalink**) 03-24-2006, 02:53 PM

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"He claimed that the universities that shoved Nigerian universities to the back row were "those with lesser research outputs but with better Internet showcase of their comparatively fewer publications." "

Dear Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Peter Okebukola.

I hear you lament on the lack of computers and internet access, sir, and I wondered if these problems were not the type of problems I go to your school to learn to solve. I mean, what is the purpose of you teaching me, if you yourself do not know how to solve the problems you have highlighted?

In fact, sir, I am hoping you would understand my deep concern. I thought I would be learning how to solve the problems facing the world, and my people, and "How to live" and all, only to find that the simple issue of providing tools for you to teach me do not exist. I can't but wonder why it is that I should be worshipping at your feet, sir!

I would have thought that your duty was to liberate and empower me, but seeing that even you yourself are not empowered and liberated, I can't but wonder, sir, if you would be able to teach me these things.

You see, sir, I do not wish to be useless, that is the reason why I am willing to be educated. But if you yourself can not do the things I was hoping to learn to do from you, I can't but wonder why I should bother, I mean, would it not be a deterent to my progress if it is known that I learnt at the feet of a useless lecturer, sir? If you aren't competent, and forgive me for reasoning that you aren't, sir, would I not be better off getting my know-how from some place else - perhaps learning a trade or selling something in the market, perhaps, sir - instead of learning how to not-know-how-to-do-anything-at-all from you, sir.

You would sir, forgve me, if it so happens that I am wrong, but if your schools have no resources, you should be teaching us, your student, how to get these resources, or better still sir, how to make them.

I wonder, sir, that in this era, sir, if not knowing about these things - the wold wid wealth, and the computy - after attending a university, would it not be the case that I would end up as useless as you, sir, a dead stone, sir, and not the corner-stone I was meant to be? I am sure you know our opinion on that, sir. I am sure you know, I would rather be a corner stone than a dead stone sir. Are these things not the pen and eraser, the necessities to becoming someone, and something, in this current era, sir?

All the same, sir, do know that you have my most deepest profoundest respect, sir.

your sincerely,

atum, (a study)