UNIPORT RANKS NOS 6 IN NEW
TOP 30 AFRICAN UNIVERSITY POLLS
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.
……………………………………………….SOUTH AFRICA HAS 13 SCHOOLS IN TOP 30
………………………………………………..EGYPT HAS 6 SCHOOLS IN TOP 30
…………………………………………………MOROCCO HAS 3 SCHOOLS IN TOP 30
………………………………………………TUNISIA HAS 3 SCHOOLS IN TOP 30
………………………………………………..GHANA,NIGERIA,KENYA,UGANDA,ETHIOPIA ALL
HAVE 1
SCHOOL IN TOP 30 POLL
……………………………………………….UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT POLLED 88.2 PERCENT
IN CITATION SCORE TO PLACE SIXTH
Nigeria’s University of Port Harcourt in Rivers state is in
the news and for a very good reason this
time around,it has just placed sixth in a TIMES Higher Education poll conducted
for the Top 30 African Universities in the year:2015/2016 academic session.
In a fact file given to The News Office Desk of Paedia
Express Multimedia in Lagos,Nigeria ,it was discovered that the top 30 poll was
conducted using the ratio of citations received by schools publication output
between 2009 and 2013 and the total citations
that was expected based on the average of the subject field.
Paedia Express gathered that to be included on the table ,an
institution must have published a minimum of 500 research papers in the five
year period assessed with at least 50
papers per year.
Paedia Express learnt that out of a list of 30 universities
in the maiden list only a representative from Ghana made the list: The University
of Ghana,Legon
Sources reveal: an institution must have published a minimum
of 500 research papers in the five- year period assessed with at least 50
papers per year”
Mr Phil Baty , Editor of The World University rankings is said to have said that building on the
flagship was to help develop more metrics to capture a wider range of
activities at African universities as the top 30n was designed to get the conversation
going.
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