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The West Still Leads in the 2026 CWUR, With an Upset in Africa

Posted By: adminon: June 01, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: Egypt, France, Japan, Makerere University, QS, SOUTH AFRICA, THE, Tsinghua University, UI, UK, University of the Witwatersrand, USNo CommentsViews:

The 2026 version of the Center for World University Ranking (CWUR) is out and the United States of America, the UK, Japan and France are still the global knowledge powers if the ranking exer... Read more

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

A FGN Deal With UK’s University of Coventry?

Posted By: adminon: March 29, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Analytical Philosophy, ASUU, Continental Philosophy, FGN, Mauritius, NIGERIA, PRC, UK, University of Coventry, University of WarwickNo CommentsViews:

Is there no normative contradiction in the Federal Government of Nigeria entering a deal with a foreign university to open a campus in Nigeria? Does it not sound like passing a Vote of No Co... Read more

Whole Idea of Development Studies Under Question – Prof Anuradha Joshi, New IDS chief

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: Words and WorldTags: Research, Trump, UK, University of Sussex, USAIDNo CommentsViews:

The Institute of Development Studies attached to the University of Sussex in the UK is not just another research centre. It is the leader, with a significance for Africa. In fact, gist merch... Read more

Could This Be Taken as Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s Oracular Testament to Nigerians?

Posted By: adminon: July 23, 2025In: FlashbackTags: Austria, Continental Europe, Crimea, Germany, India, Indias, Niger Delta, UK, Ukraine, USSR, ‘Mistake of 1914’No CommentsViews:

Intervention might not have been done with Prof Jonah Isawa Elaigwu’s demise but, for now, it draws the curtain with what might be the Oracle’s most direct message to Nigerians on nation bui... Read more

Why You Probably Aren’t Washing Your Towels Often Enough

Posted By: adminon: January 14, 2025In: SpectacleTags: Cardiff University, Fungi, India, Japan, Salmonella, Shigella, Simmons University Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and Community in Boston, The Global Hygiene Council, The International Scientific Forum on Home Hygiene, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

BBC Essentials List makes an issue of a habit that many might not have accord that seriousness By Grace Tyrrell The towels we dry ourselves with get a lot of use and pick up a lot of microbe... Read more