Adamskuty: southy universities are overated madam.

I have noticed, that most southies in here can't speak good, proper, correct english

Dumbskuty!
It seems you on the other hand can't read a well, simple, written heading and understand first before spewing your rubbish all over the thread, show casing you stupidityyy.

Let me rewrite it once again for you, read it slowly and comprehend this time.
" Top Ten Private Universities in the Continent"

Now here is your answer!
South Africa does not have Private Universities, all their Universities are Public/Government Universities and they are damn well good as well,hence they do not need Private ones. Otherwise your fellow men & women would not be all over the travel section's SA visa thread begging for help to get there.

On second thought you are excused I have heard Nigeria Notherners are not very bright!

Now do not bother with insults, any insult directed at me multiply it with infinity back to the sender!

BiitchAmMe: Unilag no dey dere na

Wow! When did Unilag turn to Private university? I am learning day by day mehn.

BiitchAmMe: Unilag no dey dere na

Really? Unilag private university?

Frankly, I'd expect to see the likes of Babcock, Afe Babalola and ABTI or AUN. However, I know Covenant rightfully deserves that spot. Being an alumni, I know the school has been doing a lot over the past few years. Its only a matter of time before they rank first in Nigeria and Africa. LOL!! (: (:

berildan: Frankly, I'd expect to see the likes of Babcock, Afe Babalola and ABTI or AUN. However, I know Covenant rightfully deserves that spot. Being an alumni, I know the school has been doing a lot over the past few years. Its only a matter of time before they rank first in Nigeria and Africa. LOL!! (: (:

Truly, those schools are top-notch. However, the ranking varies every year. I recall seeing Afe on this list last year.

nah fifa dey rank universities now...................



abi nah fifa ranking be this?

FrancisTony:

Stop hating. Atleast, you aren't better than people who ranked it.

@topic, it goes to show that if Nigerian public university is properly funded, they'd beat any University in Africa.

****
None of this 'mushroom' private Universities our Nigerian bro/sis are going in Ghana made Top10. Yeye!

use izal to wash your face..did u not see ashesi university there And. Besides.. Don't get head blown with this ranking cos its a hogwash

iamord: use izal to wash your face..did u not see ashesi university there And. Besides.. Don't get head blown with this ranking cos its a hogwash

I said 'mushroom' Ghananian Universities 'cos I am not sure most Nigerians attend that one on number10. At least three Nigerian private University made Top10.

It's hogwash because it doesn't favour your gaynian school(s). Abeg 'shoo' to the left jor.

FrancisTony:

I said 'mushroom' Ghananian Universities 'cos I am not sure most Nigerians attend that one on number10. At least three Nigerian private University made Top10.

It's hogwash because it doesn't favour your gaynian school(s). Abeg 'shoo' to the left jor.

u funny you know even if a ghanaian school is number one it does not mean a. Thing to me.. So when I say its a hogwash I mean it.. Am schooling in unilag .. And have a lot of friends in babcok and covenant .. So I know what am saying

iamord: u funny you know even if a ghanaian school is number one it does not mean a. Thing to me.. So when I say its a hogwash I mean it.. Am schooling in unilag .. And have a lot of friends in babcok and covenant .. So I know what am saying

So, what's your point?

Convenant doesn't deserve to be there or what? ...and have you been to other private Universities?

gud one

BluIvy:


Dumbskuty!
It seems you on the other hand can't read a well, simple, written heading and understand first before spewing your rubbish all over the thread, show casing you stupidityyy.

Let me rewrite it once again for you, read it slowly and comprehend this time.
" Top Ten Private Universities in the Continent"

Now here is your answer!
South Africa does not have Private Universities, all their Universities are Public/Government Universities and they are damn well good as well,hence they do not need Private ones. Otherwise your fellow men & women would not be all over the travel section's SA visa thread begging for help to get there.

On second thought you are excused I have heard Nigeria Notherners are not very bright!

Now do not bother with insults, any insult directed at me multiply it with infinity back to the sender!

. . jeeez!

bluivy my botsowanian sheboon with a canoe shaped bald head and flat nose, reduce the intake of sperm u stink kicking, horse manure, smelling motherfucker with an IQ equivalent to a dot (.)

we all know southies are illiterates, I have seen how ur southy lords abuse the English language with their numerous blunders u azzlicking boto pig.

look at the way u are defending the land,what do u have to say about ur insignificant desert? ediot.

first and foremost, there is the core north and then the middle belt also known as north central (the region where abuja is located ) . yes, the core northerners are not the brightest of nigerians ,yet there have produced great intellectuals over the years (that's not my region tho. )

the north central is at par with the south in terms of education u ignorant little slug.


please those interested in southies are igbo drug traders who supply drugs to the drug addicted blek south africans. .


I'm forever ready u h0rny slave, I will be more than glad if u could entertain me, I have been bored lately u botswanian flatface toad


before I forget u said there are no private universities in s.a? dumbfvck


list of private universities in s.a

http://edu.penieldoxa.com/areas-of-service/private-colleges-and-universities-south-africa/

FrancisTony:

So, what's your point?

Convenant doesn't deserve to be there or what? ...and have you been to other private Universities?

am not saying that they don't deserve to be there.. The people that did the polls know why they put them there.. But on my personl opinion.. all this schools r not all that! . The likes of babcok and co.. There are still other unis in africa that could take first but probably they were not included

your eyes wear pant....

BiitchAmMe: Unilag no dey dere na

Education in South
Africa: where did it go
wrong?


The country performs dismally in
international comparisons, yet
allocates 20% of its budget to
education.


Other articles you might like
by Lucy Holborn
Sep 01, 2013
Lucy Holborn graduated in politics
and philosophy at Durham University
and completed a master’s degree at
the University of the Witwatersrand.
She was research manager at the
South African Institute of Race
Relations and now works as an
analyst at Ernst & Young Advisory
Services.




“It’s bad. It just is,” says
Malehlohonolo Khauoe about the
education she received at a rural
school outside Matatiele in South
Africa’s Eastern Cape province,
the country’s worst-performing
region. Schooling here is so
inferior that the national
education ministry took over its
management.
This is the frontline of the
education crisis in South Africa.
The 19-year-old is one of its
millions of victims. When pressed
to describe what is so bad at her
school, she says the “problem is
mostly with the teachers”.
Gugulethu Xhala, 20, is from the
same village but went to a
different school in the area. She
agrees: “Teachers sometimes just
talk about whatever, nothing to do
with education. They are not
being monitored to make sure
they are doing a good job.”
Both women have dropped out:
Ms Xhala after grade 8 and Ms
Khauoe in the middle of grade 11
(the penultimate year of high
school) when she fell pregnant.
Neither has a job and without a
decent education their prospects
are bleak.


South Africa spends 20% of its
budget on education, or 6.4% of
GDP (considerably more than
many other emerging market
economies) and yet performs
dismally in international
comparisons. The World Economic
Forum’s competitiveness index for
2012–2013 ranks South Africa’s
overall education system at 140
out of 144 countries, and its
maths and science education at
143 out of 144.



The minister of basic education,
Angie Motshekga, denies there is
a crisis. She must be blind: 1.2m
children were enrolled in grade 1
in 2001, but only 44% stayed in
the system to take their National
Senior Certificate (NSC) in 2012.
Only 12% of that grade 1 cohort
ended up passing their NSC well
enough to study for a university
degree; and only 11% passed
maths with a mark of 40% or
above.
Why, then, is South Africa not
reaping what it spends?
Mesdames Khauoe’s and Xhala’s
experiences highlight three
critical factors that affect
educational outcomes: teachers,
the management of teachers, and
outside disruptions to schooling
(in Ms Khauoe’s case, falling
pregnant). Jennifer Shindler, a
specialist manager at JET
Education Services, a non-profit
research and development
organisation, terms these “in-
classroom factors, such as
teaching and resources; in-school
factors, such as leadership and
management; and out-of-school
factors, such as parental
involvement and socio-economic
circumstances”.
Teachers take the flak for South
Africa’s declining education
standards. “The content
knowledge of teachers is a serious
challenge,” admits David Silman,
a director at the basic education
department. Ariellah Rosenberg,
head of educator empowerment at
ORT SA, a non-profit organisation
that provides teacher training and
skills development, agrees.
“Education is only as good as your
teachers, and our universities are
failing to produce quality
teachers, particularly in maths
and science. Teachers also have
patchy content knowledge. We go
to schools and find that teachers
are only teaching the parts of the
curriculum that they are
comfortable with.”
Madelaine, 62, who asked to
remain anonymous, is a teacher
with 40 years’ experience in a
formerly white public high school
east of Johannesburg. She agrees
that teachers do not know enough.
Recently a department head in
her school gave a test to pupils
studying tourism. It asked them to
name two countries in South
America. Italy was among the
answers suggested by the
department head, Madelaine says.
“A professional attitude needs to
be instilled into young people
entering the [teaching]
profession. For many people it is
‘sheltered employment’, as they
fail to meet deadlines and present
quality lessons and yet are never
sanctioned,” she says.
One fix would be to introduce
school inspectors. The South
African Democratic Teachers
Union (Sadtu), the country’s
largest teaching union, is opposed.
Their stance harks back to a time
when inspectors from the white
National Party government were
viewed with suspicion in black
schools. “They were just there to
find fault, policing teachers
without playing a development
role,” said Mugwena Maluleke,
Sadtu general secretary, in
December 2012 when President
Jacob Zuma proposed
reintroducing inspectors.
However, both Mr Silman and Ms
Shindler suggest that much can be
done even without inspectors.
“There are two factors crucial in
education: teachers and
management,” Mr Silman says. “A
well-run school will almost
always have a good principal.”
School management, which
largely depends on principals, is
one of the “in-school” factors
mentioned by Ms Shindler.
Education district offices, which
fall under provincial education
departments, are supposed to
support and monitor schools, both
in administration and subject
areas. However, Ms Shindler says,
the districts are often
understaffed and their personnel
may not have the right skills. The
districts cannot visit and support
schools often or effectively
enough to ensure good quality
education.
Without well-functioning district
support and monitoring, a
school’s success often comes down
to its principal. School governing
bodies (SGBs) hire principals
subject to the approval of the
provincial heads of department. A
well-run school is therefore likely
to have a well-functioning SGB,
Mr Silman says. SGBs include
teachers and pupils, but a
majority of their members must
be parents.
However, about two-thirds of
South African children do not live
in the same household as their
biological parents. Poverty and
adult illiteracy often prevent
parents who are present from
getting more involved in their
children’s education. “In our
interventions in education we are
often missing the parents,” Ms
Rosenberg says. “Parents play a
huge role, but I think often
parents don’t have the knowledge
of how to help.”
The value of education in South
Africa has been lost, says Jonathan
Jansen, rector and vice-chancellor
of the University of the Free State.
It started in the 1950s with the
destruction of church schools,
which historically had been a
source of “intellectual
consciousness” in the black
population, he says. The 1976
student uprising also eroded the
authority of teachers and the state
as providers of education, he
argues. This effect can be seen
today when people (including
parents) blockade schools or burn
libraries during community
protests.
Other out-of-school factors, such
as poverty, shackle the attitude of
parents and society towards
education. “Socio-economic
factors go down through
generations and starkly affect
educational outcomes for
children,” Ms Shindler says. Some
36% of seven to 24-year-olds are
not in education because they do
not have enough money for fees,
according to Statistics South
Africa. Family commitments,
having to work at home, and
pregnancy account for another
26% of those not receiving
instruction. Only 7% are not in
education because they consider it
useless.
Many bright young people are
missing out on the chance of
getting a higher education
because they cannot afford it, Mr
Jansen says. “There are not
enough bursaries for the bulge of
students now coming out of the
school system,” he explains, even
if pupils unqualified to study for
higher education are excluded.
His point highlights an area of
success that is easily overlooked
amid the disaster stories coming
out of South Africa’s education
system. Access to education has
improved dramatically over the
last few decades. In 1980 just
30,000 black African pupils took
their matric (the predecessor to
the NSC). Now over 400,000 black
candidates sit the exam every
year. The number of children
enrolled in pre-primary schools
has nearly trebled in the last
decade alone.
Yet this improved access has
brought with it the challenge of
educating a fast- expanding
school population using teachers
who were often themselves the
product of apartheid-era Bantu
(black) education. “In criticising
education policy in South Africa,
people often forget the challenges
that were faced after 1994,” Ms
Shindler says. “The transition
period involved a difficult process
of amalgamating all the old
education departments, equalising
expenditure and distributing
teachers. On the whole I think
very good policies were
introduced to handle that
process.” Some would disagree,
arguing that post-apartheid
policies have been part of the
problem, in particular the
frequent changing of the
curriculum.
Mr Silman admits that
compromises were made in this
transition period, particularly in
giving the provinces more power
over education. “I can understand
the desire after the apartheid era
to decentralise power over
government functions like
education, but it can make it very
hard for a national department to
ensure that its policies are
implemented effectively.”
Arguably the failures in South
Africa’s education system reflect
the problems that have beset
governance in the country more
generally since 1994. A lack of
skills, monitoring and
accountability have led to poor
policy implementation, inferior
training of teachers and
bureaucrats, and a system many
people have lost hope in. Those
who can afford to are increasingly
sending their children to private
schools.
“It does seem that parents are
voting with their feet,” says Simon
Lee, information manager at the
Independent Schools Association
of Southern Africa. The number of
pupils in independent schools
nearly doubled between 2000 and
2012 to over 500,000. The
government also does not express
the same degree of hostility to the
private sector as it does in other
fields, such as health. A number
of public-private initiatives,
ranging from teacher training to
the sharing of resources, show
that cooperation is being
embraced to the benefit of schools
and pupils.
Unfortunately any solution will
come too late for Mesdames
Khauoe and Xhala and millions of
others.


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adamscuti: . . jeeez!

[s]bluivy my botsowanian sheboon with a canoe shaped bald head and flat nose, reduce the intake of sperm u stink kicking, horse manure, smelling motherfucker with an IQ equivalent to a dot (.)

we all know southies are illiterates, I have seen how ur southy lords abuse the English language with their numerous blunders u azzlicking boto pig.

look at the way u are defending the land,what do u have to say about ur insignificant desert? ediot.

first and foremost, there is the core north and then the middle belt also known as north central (the region where abuja is located ) . yes, the core northerners are not the brightest of nigerians ,yet there have produced great intellectuals over the years (that's not my region tho. )

the north central is at par with the south in terms of education u ignorant little slug.
[/s]

[s]please those interested in southies are igbo drug traders who supply drugs to the drug addicted blek south africans. .


I'm forever ready u h0rny slave, I will be more than glad if u could entertain me, I have been bored lately u botswanian flatface toad


before I forget u said there are no private universities in s.a? dumbfvck
[/s]

list of private universities in s.a

http://edu.penieldoxa.com/areas-of-service/private-colleges-and-universities-south-africa/

Here you go again, now I kn ow you are dumber than your toes. Once again you have show case your only talent, being a dumbskunk.

Did you even open that link, Dumbo? Those are colleges and techs FOOOL! Not one of those is a university. They need to help you further by decreasing the Notherners entry scores to 1.

Adamskuty: southy universities are overated madam.

I have noticed, that most southies in here can't speak good, proper, correct english

Thank you for saying MOST but which South Africans have you been chatting with?

Am not quoting anyone therefore i expect not to be Quoted.....we don't have private universities in SA,not even a single one..

do u speak with them?

are they university graduates?

Adamskuty: southy universities are overated madam.

I have noticed, that most southies in here can't speak good, proper, correct english

EroZA: Am not quoting anyone therefore i expect not to be Quoted.....we don't have private universities in SA,not even a single one..

Kanti MGI yona? Ngyazi buzela nje

banega: Huh !! Not even a single South-African University,. Are you kidding??

Why are you so simplistic na? Did it occur to you that there probably aren't any private universities in South AFRICA?

mmmm only one person get 2 university, i did nt say anytin o

Adamskuty: southy universities are overated madam.

I have noticed, that most southies in here can't speak good, proper, correct english

Nigerians are not faring better. Nonetheless, UCT, Stenllebosch, UKZN and Wits are still a top notch in Africa.

banega: Huh !! Not even a single South-African University,. Are you kidding??

Mention the names of the SA universities and compare.

MGI? bhala igama liphelele

soilsista:
Kanti MGI yona? Ngyazi buzela nje

FrancisTony:

So, what's your point?

Convenant doesn't deserve to be there or what? ...and have you been to other private Universities?

iamord: am not saying that they don't deserve to be there.. The people that did the polls know why they put them there.. But on my personl opinion.. all this schools r not all that! . The likes of babcok and co.. There are still other unis in africa that could take first but probably they were not included

EroZA:
do u speak with them?
are they university graduates?

BluIvy:
Here you go again, now I now you are dumber than your toes. Once again you have show case your only talent, being a dumbskunk.
Did you even open that link, Dumbo? Those are colleges and techs FOOOL! Not one of those is a university. They need to help you further by decreasing the Notherners entry scores to 1.

adamscuti: . . jeeez!
bluivy my botsowanian sheboon with a canoe shaped bald head and flat nose, reduce the intake of sperm u stink kicking, horse manure, smelling motherfucker with an IQ equivalent to a dot (.)
we all know southies are illiterates, I have seen how ur southy lords abuse the English language with their numerous blunders u azzlicking boto pig.
look at the way u are defending the land,what do u have to say about ur insignificant desert? ediot.
first and foremost, there is the core north and then the middle belt also known as north central (the region where abuja is located ) . yes, the core northerners are not the brightest of nigerians ,yet there have produced great intellectuals over the years (that's not my region tho. )
the north central is at par with the south in terms of education u ignorant little slug.
please those interested in southies are igbo drug traders who supply drugs to the drug addicted blek south africans. .
I'm forever ready u h0rny slave, I will be more than glad if u could entertain me, I have been bored lately u botswanian flatface toad
before I forget u said there are no private universities in s.a? dumbfvck
list of private universities in s.a
http://edu.penieldoxa.com/areas-of-service/private-colleges-and-universities-south-africa/

u people have started again abeg dont derail this topic oh

This ranking is not based on academic performance, quality of education or excellence, universities are just ranked based on their presence on the web. So this ranking does not mean anything, even a university that is yet to be opened can be ranked when they have good presence on the web.

FrancisTony:


Number one private University in Africa not Number one University in Africa.

Read before you make a comment.

WHY "HE" DID NOT GRADUATE WITH A FIRST CLASS.

Lack of information! if only he discovered Knowbase in his first year. Are you a an undergraduate? Lucky you! The information on http://www..com/resources/ will help you greatly to achieve good grades and achieve your academic goals. if you are a graduate, share this information with your undergraduate friends.

Thank God for "HIM" he eventually graduated with a 2.1, so its not late for you as well. Enjoy your time on knowbase.

ammyluv2002: Madonna University, Okija? Thatz very funny! *no offence* Seriously, that school can never be among the top private universities in Nigeria not to mention Africa. I'm sorry!

Prestigious Madonna University is fr ahead of you.

Stop hating sis.

ammyluv2002: Madonna University, Okija? Thatz very funny! *no offence* Seriously, that school can never be among the top private universities in Nigeria not to mention Africa. I'm sorry!

I am shocked too. Madonna bawo,with all that i have heard about the school. Em em em,make i no talk.

unfortunately those who write fallacy will be challenged,funny enough you are failing to direct them...

slimthugchimee: u people have started again abeg dont derail this topic oh