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Nairobi university is the best university in Kenya: World university ranking list

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The University of Nairobi (UoN) has been ranked at position 1,294 out of twenty thousand universities worldwide according to the latest list from the 2020-2021 Center for World University Rankings. The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) publishes the largest academic rankings of global universities.

From the East Africa region Uganda’s Makerere lead with a score of 70.8% to clinch position 923 in the whole world. Tanzania’s Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) which is a public university in Dar es Salaam became the only other university apart from Makerere and UON to be ranked after finishing at position 1835 (66.4%).

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East African Countries with no university in the ranking list

Rwanda, South Sudan and Burundi failed to have any of their universities in the world ranking list. From the horn of Africa all the four countries (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia) also registered no universities in the list.

S/NO UNIVERSITY NAME COUNTRY SCORE (%) WORLD RANK
1 Makerere University  Uganda 70.8 923
2 University of Nairobi Kenya 68.4 1,357
3 Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) Tanzania 66.4 1,835

 

Center for World University Rankings uses the following indicators to rank the world’s universities:

  • Quality of education, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major academic distinctions relative to the university’s size (25%),
  • Alumni employment, measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held top executive positions at the world’s largest companies relative to the university’s size (25%),
  • Quality of faculty, measured by the number of faculty members who have won major academic distinctions (10%) and
  •  Research performance:
THE REST OF AFRICA

In the African continent South africa’s University of Capetown took position one with a score of 77.3% (position 268 in the world). It was followed by University of the Witwatersrand (77.2%, position 275) and Stellenbosch University (75.0%, position 429); both from South Africa.

Harvard University from the United States of America (USA) took top spot in the whole world with a perfect score of 100%.

According to another list released by Webometrics ranking of world universities in 2019, UoN was ranked number nine in Africa ahead of uganda’s  Makerere University; which was placed at number eleven. UoN was also among top 1000 in the world after it was ranked 990 worldwide.

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Reopening of universities; Education ministry issues circular

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   The ministry of education has issued fresh guidelines on how universities shall be reopened following closure in March; to combat spread of covid 19. According to the latest guidelines, all universities are expected to resume operations in September this year. It is expected that by that time the rate of infections would have gone down.

  “The ministry of education in collaboration with other government agencies is working on the modalities of reopening all institutions of learning. Modelling projections by the ministry of health on when the peak of infections is projected to be in August/ September, and therefore, it is expected that fewer cases will be reported after September 2020.” reads a circular by the Principal Secretary for State Department for University Education Amb. Simon Nabukwesi and dated June 17, 2020.

  The PS has also directed universities to develop elaborate plans ahead of the reopening. In the plans, there should be measures to prevent spread of covid 19 transmissions. Top on the list of requirements is provision of clean running water and soap for hand washing and sanitizers for all students at all times.

  The universities should also ensure social distancing and that everybody should be compelled to wear masks.

   “Universities will ensure that all learners lecturers and non-teaching staff have masks. The universities may provide these at a subsidized rate to students and staff,” he adds.

   At all entry points to the universities, the ministry has directed that there be thermo guns for monitoring body temperature of all persons entering the the institutions.

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   Students and staff who may not be able to travel back to the universities should be accorded necessary support; including online learning for the students.

   “Universities are to ensure that contingency plans are provided for those students who might need assistance to get back to their institutions,” Nabukwesi directs.

   Further, universities shall now cease being used as isolation centres so as to sanitize/ fumigate them before operations resume.

   “Institutions whose facilities are still, currently, being used for isolation, quarantine or as treatment centres are supposed to liaise with ministry of health to cease any further admissions and to transfer the patients to MoH (Ministry of Health) facilities,” Says the PS.

   The institutions of higher learning are expected to have a crunch program to accommodate both the continuing students and first year year students.

   Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has been traversing the country to see preparedness of schools ahead of the September reopening date. Top in his mission is to find out if schools have adequate supply of clean water.

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