The collapse of the Nigerian education system have become very obvious as no single higher institution in the country made the list of 2016 Top 1000 Universities in the world as released by Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR)
The Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR) has released its 2016 Top 1000 Universities in the world and placed Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in the United States, in the top three spots respectively.
The University of Cambridge and University of Oxford, both in United Kingdom, came 4th and 5th respectively, as University of Witwatersand, South Africa (176th) ranked first in Africa.
Others were University of Cape Town (265th), Stellenbosch University (329th), University of KwaZulu-Natal (468th) and the University of Pretoria (697th), all in South Africa, and Makerere University in Uganda also clinched the 846th position in the ranking.
Four Egyptian Universities also represented Africa on the list, they are: Cairo University (771st), Ain Shams University (960th), Mansoura University (985th), and Alexandria University (995th).
According to CWUR website, there are eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world’s top 1000 universities. They are:
1. Quality of Education: measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university’s size (25%)
2. Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held CEO positions at the world’s top companies relative to the university’s size (25%)
3. Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals (25%)
4. Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals (5%)
5. Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals (5%)
6. Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers (5%)
7. Broad Impact, measured by the university’s h-index (5%)
8. Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings (5%)
What could be the MAJOR cause of this collapse in the education sector of our GREAT country Nigeria?
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Posted: at 12-07-2016 06:38 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
EDDYPRINCE at 12-07-2016 06:49 PM (8 years ago) (m)
THEIR OPINION ,, THEY LIE ALOT... WHEN U GO TO THE UK AND AMERICA MOST HIGHLY PLACED DOC AND PROF ARE NIGERIAN THAT SCHOOLED IN NIGERIA.,,, SO WHY THIS TRASH. ABEG WE SHUD STOP BELIEVING WAT ALL THIS WHITE PEOPLE AND THEIR AGENT ARE DOING JUST TO RUN OUR COUNTRY DOWN.
Posted: at 12-07-2016 06:49 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
christianity at 12-07-2016 07:55 PM (8 years ago) (m)
;Dposter u are just so funny,where u expecting even the name of the country to be mentioned talkless of those (glorified nursery schools) u called university???u must be living in a marroned island.
Posted: at 12-07-2016 07:55 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac
THEIR OPINION ,, THEY LIE ALOT... WHEN U GO TO THE UK AND AMERICA MOST HIGHLY PLACED DOC AND PROF ARE NIGERIAN THAT SCHOOLED IN NIGERIA.,,, SO WHY THIS TRASH. ABEG WE SHUD STOP BELIEVING WAT ALL THIS WHITE PEOPLE AND THEIR AGENT ARE DOING JUST TO RUN OUR COUNTRY DOWN.
Really? Let's look at something, how many of our universities are involved in research and not book/theory work? We have so many engineering graduates but we are still yet to get any patent directly originating from Nigeria. So what is the lie there?
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Posted: at 13-07-2016 05:02 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero
why dem go make up, when all the guys do na 2 dey do cultism,club,robbery,yahoo yahoo and d girls aristos,hustling 4 human hair,dey jump 4rm one car to another,stay Facebook 247,the govt doesn't care or corrupt lecturers.this na d beginning soon na animals go dey strole around campuses.make una seat down 4 una papa house fold hand dey blame Buhari.
Posted: at 13-07-2016 09:35 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming
Shoemaker at 13-07-2016 10:44 AM (8 years ago) (m)
The Nigeria Football Federation receives more funding than all the Universities in the land combined... No surprises there. Not even the top 5,000 Universities either
Posted: at 13-07-2016 10:44 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming