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HigherEd:
This is not Nigeria of 1821. Praise God.

Akpuoru:
OK. Please do you have first hand info about their PH school?

edoairways:
In terms of citations of articles CU top with 78.4
Industry income :26.3
Research: 14.7
Teaching: 27.2.
UI's strength is
International outlook: 37.3 meaning they still live on goodwill. However their research output is low (12.1). This shows that either the government isn't investing enough on research or some lecturers are siphoning fund.

The People’s Republic claims 14 places in the top 30 of the THE Emerging Economies University Rankings 2020, up from 12 last year, including all of the top four places. Tsinghua University remains number one, while Peking University is second, Zhejiang University is third and the University of Science and Technology of China is fourth.



Russia, Taiwan and South Africa are the only other territories that feature in the top 10.
Mainland China is also the most-represented nation overall, with 81 institutions, against India’s 56 and Brazil’s 46.


The Emerging Economies University Rankings includes only institutions in countries classified by the London Stock Exchange’s FTSE Group as “advanced emerging”, “secondary emerging” or “frontier”.

However, South Africa is the top performer based on countries’ average overall score among institutions in the top 200. The African country achieves an average score of 41.3 out of 100, while Saudi Arabia, which joined the ranking for the first time after gaining “secondary emerging” status in the FTSE list last year, is second with a score of 40.3. Mainland China is third with a score of 39.3. Only institutions with at least five universities were included in the analysis.



Saudi Arabia is also home to the top new entrant in the table – King Abdulaziz University at 13th place.

Elsewhere, Brazil continues to decline in the ranking this year, although its flagship University of São Paulo bucks the trend, claiming 14th place (up from 15th last year).


The Emerging Economies University Rankings is based on the same 13 performance indicators used for the THE World University Rankings, but the weightings are different to reflect the development priorities of universities in emerging economies.


Overall, 533 universities from 47 countries or regions are included in the ranking.

edoairways:
HigherEd is that why their postgraduate students publishes at least 4 journals articles as a requisite before graduation?

Degis:
Small wonder, Buhari became President because people like you refused to accept a glaring truth due to sentiments.

Covenant University is still numero uno not because her standards are unassailable but because they have a system of performance metrics that monitors, reports, evaluates and measures activities whose throughput resonates with their vision and the indicators that the ranking institutions use to determine performance

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has accused lecturers across the country’s public tertiary institutions of diverting research grants to build homes, purchase cars, and engage in other frivolous activities.

This is coming days after an allegation of personnel budget inflation levelled against some academic and healthcare institutions including the University of Ibadan, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), was made public.

Making the fresh allegation in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Monday, TETFund’s director of research and development, Salihu Bakari, said huge sums of money made available to the individual lecturers, and sometimes their teams for research exercises, conference attendance, among others, are usually misappropriated.

Mr Bakari spoke at a capacity building workshop organised by the agency for select staffers of research and development units from some of the public tertiary institutions, as parts of efforts aimed at rejigging research activities in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

Mr Bakari, while responding to questions from the participants on the introduction of ‘stringent’ conditions by the agency, especially in the allocation of grants, noted that the culture of impunity, breach of trust, and violations of funding agreements and rules of engagement by the lecturers is unimaginable.

He said: “It is sad to note that public funds made available to lecturers to conduct groundbreaking and demand-driven researches towards solving Nigeria’s socio-economic, and even political challenges, are misappropriated by those who are expected to be above board. I mean the beneficiaries of our grants.

“Through our recovery efforts, we had traced monies to houses built by lecturers with the public fund; there are cases of cars purchased with the money, without any research work done. And these are the people who would be accusing politicians of being corrupt.”

He also accused many of the institutions of committing worse crimes.

He said TETFund’s new policy engagement, introduction of strict conditions, and the process towards recovering public funds misappropriated by both the individual lecturers and institutions, will help to reduce malfeasance across various campuses.

More funds, less applicants

Meanwhile, the agency has further accused the institutions and their lecturers of not accessing huge funds available at the organisation for research activities and development of innovative programmes.

According to Mr Bakari, the agency is shifting its focus from infrastructural development of the higher institutions to content development.

He said globally, high-flying academic institutions are no longer known to occupy large space but are recognised with their innovative ideas, rich content and advancements in technology.

However, he lamented that as much as the agency is trying to democratise access to its large pool of resources, “lecturers and their institutions are not coming forward to access the funds.”

“Today, we have decided to shift our focus and we have opened more doors of opportunities for both the lecturers and their institutions to attract funds to showcase their expertise. But what do we see? No one is coming for the funds.

“For instance, as at 2019, out of 220 public tertiary institutions that are eligible to access our funds for journal publications, only 26 applied. We now also have financial interventions in the areas of manuscript development, ICT development, basic research fund, national research fund, advocacy, among others.”

‘Paradigm shift’

Major facilitators at the conference, including Nigeria-born Ibrahim Katampe of the Centre for Excellence in Emerging Technologies at the Central State University, USA; Olufemi Bamiro, former vice-chancellor of University of Ibadan, among others, said they have keyed into TETFund’s new vision.

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES on the sidelines of the opening programme at the conference, Mr Katampe, a professor, said no nation develops above the quality of her researchers.

He said for Nigeria to reclaim her lost glory and combat the socio-economic and political challenges including insecurity, poverty, hunger and diseases, quality researches that are demand-driven must be constantly carried out by the country’s academics

“Things must change back home. Our experiences have shown that holding a serious workshop like this in Nigeria will only be counterproductive. Apart from distractions, absenteeism and nonchalance on the part of participants that we may encounter, real-time facilities for demonstrations are also not available back home.

“But now that TETFund is changing its focus from building constructions to content development, we want to believe it is time for positive change in the areas of research and development in our tertiary institutions. We are committed to this because we have got no other home apart from Nigeria, and no foreigners would fix our problems for us.”

IntellectOzone:
Nothing can change it that 1st class graduate in CU is equivalent to 3rd class UI Product

Take it or leave it

UI I Stan, Recte Sapere Fons

Latest computation by SciVal, showing the research performances of Nigerian institutions ranked by the Times Higher Education (THE), revealed that Covenant was a soar away leader courtesy of her stunning performance.

When benchmarked against some of the first generation universities in the country - University of Ibadan, University of Nigeria Nsukka, and University of Lagos - Covenant occupied the top spot with an all-time high 1400 publications for 2019, the same year that Nigeria’s premier university, University of Ibadan had 1139 publications.

The outcome showed that there was some measure of progression in the performance of the University of Ibadan between 2002, when Covenant was established, and 2011. But UI’s performance nosedived in the years after 2011 until the decline was arrested. Covenant on the other hand had a slow beginning, but performance improved from 2012 to 2016, when the current Vice-Chancellor, Professor AAA. Atayero, took the reins of Management and inspired geometric increase in the year-on-year number of publications of Covenant.

While the University of Nigeria Nsukka ranked third in the equation, the University of Lagos appeared to have had a topsy-turvy experience and her performance appeared to be heading south once again.

For Covenant, this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes!

Hungry4sex:
There's nothing like accidentally leaked, once it involves huge tech companies. They usually "leak" products as a way to gauge customer reviews, without any backlash

Comedian2019:
If really those were mere firecrackers, then the suspect should thank God jungle justice was not meted out on him.

I just wonder what would have happened if it was in a mosque.