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Who is Being Prepared to Thrive in a Multipolar University?

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2026In: BookspaceTags: Asia, Australia, Canada, EU, Global South, Iran, Japan, Manhattan Project, Middle East, MIT, Patrice Lumumba University, Russia, Singapore, The Humboldtian model, The Manhattan Project, UK, US, Western EuropeNo CommentsViews:

By Carlos Vargas The received story about global higher education goes like this: for most of the 20th century, knowledge flowed outwards from a small number of research-intensive universi... Read more

Plagiarism is Not a Sin: Claudine Gay’s Failure was Intellectual, Not Moral

Posted By: adminon: January 12, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Harvard, MIT, Neri Oxman, Plagiarism, Prof Claudine Gay, University of PennsylvaniaNo CommentsViews:

The orthodoxy in academia is capital NO to plagiarism. But, in the essay below, Kathleen Stock who is introduced as a columnist for UnHerd; author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for... Read more

Oxford University Heading for a Decade Long, Uninterrupted No. 1 in THE Global Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 30, 2023In: GovernanceTags: California, Chicago, Egypt, Epistemological hegemony, Harvard, MIT, NIGERIA, Oxford, SOUTH AFRICA, Stanford, THE, UCLNo CommentsViews:

UK’s Oxford University is heading for a decade long, uninterrupted number One position on The Higher Education (THE) global ranking. It has been in that position for the eight year running w... Read more

The Women Are, Indeed, Coming

Posted By: adminon: March 16, 2023In: SpectacleTags: Cambridge, Colombia, Harvard, LSE, Manchester, MIT, NYU, St AndrewsNo CommentsViews:

Intervention is updating its watch on the phenomenal control of some of the most strategic universities in the world today by women. It is a paradoxical rise for women to provide the leaders... Read more

Nigeria Completely Out of 2021 Global University Ranking Where China is Slugging It Out With the West

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Africa, CHINA, MIT, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

There is no knowing whether it is her internal bleeding or the criteria by which the QS ranking exercise is conducted that may explain why not a single university from Nigeria made it in the... Read more

In Search of the Tribe of Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie and Ihechukwu Madubuike

Posted By: adminon: December 26, 2020In: People in ActionTags: 'Clash of Civilisations', 2nd National Development Plan, Chinweiture, Cosmopolitanism, media globalisation, MIT, Multi-culturalism, Soyinka, WINNo CommentsViews:

A literature review exercise for an essay brought the tribe to memory. They were, indeed, a tribe, a tribe of intellectual hostage taking but in a critical and Afrocentric sense of that. The... Read more