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Veritas University Shuffles Academic Hierarchy Ahead of a New Session

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2020In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

Obviously happy to fulfil the conditions for re-opening the university in the context of COVID-19, Veritas University in Abuja, Nigeria is doing so along with retouching the academic hierarc... Read more

As China’s Tsinghua University Joins the Big Club of Oxford, Harvard, etc

Posted By: adminon: October 08, 2020In: BookspaceTags: 'Double First-Class' Project, Oxford University, Peking University, R & DNo CommentsViews:

Originally published as “Tsinghua’s ‘global first-class’ status is just the beginning of China’s ambition”, this piece invites reflection on the university dimension of the competition for g... Read more

Scholars Assess the State of Sociology

Posted By: adminon: October 04, 2020In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

Having successfully invaded International Relations, Critical Security Studies, Political Economy and similar other sub-disciplines, Sociology as a discipline is bound to attract interrogati... Read more

Stop Worrying About the ‘Death’ of the Humanities

Posted By: adminon: September 26, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Renaissance, Shakespeare, Studia humanities, TheologyNo CommentsViews:

Although a 2019 piece , the subject matter has gained currency to warrant bringing it up at this point in time By Adam Kirsch Colleges across America are beginning to prepare for graduation... Read more

A Review of Dr Hyacinth Iwu’s Football Theory of Scientific Development

Posted By: adminon: September 23, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Ckaude Ake, FTSD, Import Substitution Industrialisation, Infant Industrial Model, Structural Adjustment ProgrammeNo CommentsViews:

By Martin Ihembe After more than half a century of political independence, most countries in Africa are still grappling with the challenge of development with insignificant success. This is... Read more

The End of the University as We Know It!

Posted By: adminon: September 18, 2020In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

This 2013 essay deserves to be republished, having been provoked into currency by the very conditions the author foresaw. It has appeared in many forms since it was first published in 2013.... Read more

LASUSOC As LASU’S Parade Ground of Titans in Media Scholarship

Posted By: adminon: September 04, 2020In: BookspaceTags: ACSPN, LASU, LASUSOC, NUCNo CommentsViews:

By Tunde Akanni, PhD On Tuesday September 1, 2020, two days before the announcement of LASU as the nation’s second foremost university according to Times Higher Education (THE) Tertiary Educ... Read more

Naked Abuse: Sex for Grades in African Universities

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2020In: BookspaceTags: No CommentsViews:

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed. In October 2019, British Broadcasting Corporation popularly known as BBC, released a Documentary titled: ‘Sex for Grades.’ For weeks after the release of the Document... Read more

US is Uncontested Global Academic Power in 2021 THE University Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 03, 2020In: BookspaceTags: Africa, Australia, Canada, Singapore, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

It is a constantly changing ranking order but this is how they stand today and the reasons for that as far as the 2021 Times Higher Education (THE)‘s ranking exercise is concerned. Majority... Read more

The Case for Nationalist Lens of History in Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: August 31, 2020In: BookspaceTags: African Historiography, Edward Gibbon, European Civilisation, Kanem-Bornu Empire, Savagary, Southern KadunaNo CommentsViews:

By Ambassador Usman Sarki In this piece, the author, Ambassador Usman Sarki returns to his one-man campaign for privileging History. A product of the once famous Zaria School of History, the... Read more