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Over There in Australia, Vice-Chancellors Earn Far More Than the Prime Minister

Posted By: adminon: August 21, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Australia, Exceptionally wealthy American universities, Go8, Mark Scott, UK, University College London, University governance, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, Vice-ChancellorNo CommentsViews:

Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria, for example, may not need to fight for pay rise because, as critics of the system would say, they can get whatever they want informally. In Australia, however, n... Read more

Women Stage a Silent Revolution in Global Academia, Seize 43 of the 200 Top Universities

Posted By: adminon: March 08, 2022In: SpectacleTags: Australia, Gender Revolution, Socialist Revolution, THE, UK, USANo CommentsViews:

Times Higher Education which compiled the figures of the number and the names of the 43 out of the top 200 global universities led by women Vice-Chancellors insists that it “is striking tha... Read more

A Vice-Chancellor for Oxford and Cambridge Universities

Posted By: adminon: February 04, 2022In: BookspaceTags: Brexit, CHINA, COVID-19, Harvard University, UK, University of British Columbia, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of St Andrews, University of TorontoNo CommentsViews:

With both Oxford and Cambridge seeking new vice-chancellors, Rosa Ellis examines the unique pressures of leading these prestigious universities and the qualities that successful candidates w... Read more

Onyeka, UK Based Nigerian Singer, Follows up Her Debut, ‘Mornings’ With Her Second Single, ‘Dreams’

Posted By: adminon: January 29, 2022In: People in ActionTags: 'Dreams', 'Mornings', LSE, UKNo CommentsViews:

Hers is a UK based Nigerian family from which Nigeria is sure to hear somehow soon. Large by British standard but well educated all in some of the toughest British universities such as the L... Read more

Tanzanian Nobel Prize Winner on Literature Was Lecturer in Nigeria’s Bayero University, Kano

Posted By: adminon: October 07, 2021In: BookspaceTags: Nobel Prize on Literature, UK, USANo CommentsViews:

Prof Abdulrazak Gournah, the Tanzanian academic who won the 2021 Nobel Prize on Literature was a lecturer in Bayero University, Kano throughout the eighties, Intervention has learnt. Some of... Read more

US, UK Universities Still Lead the World in THE’s 2022 World University Ranking

Posted By: adminon: September 02, 2021In: BookspaceTags: CHINA, Toronto, UCL, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

The world order might be changing but, as far as the knowledge-power nexus is concerned, the United States of America and the United Kingdom still have the largest number of the top scoring... Read more

The Choice Before Nigeria

Posted By: adminon: July 07, 2021In: De-EscalationTags: APC, EU, Rwandan genocide, UK, ‘3 R’No CommentsViews:

By Mike Kebonkwu Esq In one of his majestic endorsement of the multivocal imperative, the late Chinua Achebe compared wisdom to a goatskin bag: everyone carries his or her own. This essay is... 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

History Repeating Itself as Prof Eghosa Osaghae Resumes @ NIIA?

Posted By: adminon: April 15, 2021In: GovernanceTags: Bolaji Akinyemi, CFR, Chatham House, CHINA, MFA, NIIA, RUSI, State Department, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

In the week that University of Ibadan’s Prof Eghosa Osaghae resumes as the Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, (NIIA), the temptation to infer history repeat... Read more

4 Inviting Paragraphs Beyond Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s 2023 Presidential Ambition in His Kaduna Statement

Posted By: adminon: March 28, 2021In: FlashbackTags: Arewa House, Free market, Germany, Key industries, Sardauna Memorial Lecture, UK, USNo CommentsViews:

Below are four paragraphs below from the speech of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the 2021 Sardauna Memorial Lecture Saturday, March 27th, 2021 at Arewa House in Kaduna where he was the Chairp... Read more