Discovering panacea to colleges’ budgetary weight
In February 2010, irate students at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, were reported to have gone on rampage setting ablaze supermarkets filling stations, and raiding banks. The students were protesting the hike in school fees from N26, 000 to N76, 000 for full-time and from N30, 000 to N100, 000 for part-time students.
On the other hand, university workers are complaining of lack of adequate funding for tertiary institutions.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for five months in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1996, went on strike because of it. They downed tool again for three months in 2001; two weeks in 2002; six months in 2003; three months in 2007; four months in 2009; five months in 2010; three months in 2011; and six months in 2013.
Source : Guardian
Ex-president Obasanjo bags PhD in Christian Theology from National Open University of Nigeria
The former president was awarded the degree by Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts of the National Open University of Nigeria(NOUN), Abeokuta Study Centre.
Dr. Samaila Mande, one of the panelists said Obasanjo satisfied the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo was on Friday, December 15, pronounced competent for the award of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Christian Theology.
According to The Nation, Obasanjo was given the award after 163 minutes robust defense of his voluminous thesis before a six man panel.
The best university in the world isn’t in America Oxford and Cambridge outrank elite US counterparts
For the first time in 14 years, an American college didn’t crack the top two in a ranking of the best universities in the world, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 list.
United Kingdom-based Oxford and Cambridge Universities came in No.1 and No. 2, respectively.
Times Higher Ed reviews the top 1,000 universities in the world looking at factors of teaching, research, and influence to rank them.
It reviews quantitative factors, like the number of times a university’s published work is cited by scholars globally, and qualitative factors, like peer surveys, to assemble the ranking.
Read below to see the top 10 universities in the world:
10. University of Pennsylvania (tie)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Students: 20,361
Number of students per faculty member: 6.5
10. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (tie)
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Students: 19,233
Number of students per faculty member: 14.6
9. University of Chicago
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Students: 13,525
Number of students per faculty member: 6.2
8. Imperial College London
Location: Kensington, London
Students: 15,857
Number of students per faculty member: 11.4
7. Princeton University
Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Students: 7,955
Number of students per faculty member: 8.3
6. Harvard University
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Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Students: 29,326
Number of students per faculty member: 8.9
Source : Independent