{"id":29344,"date":"2016-10-12T02:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T02:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-makerere-ranked-fourth-best-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T02:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T02:15:39","slug":"uganda-makerere-ranked-fourth-best-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-makerere-ranked-fourth-best-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda:Makerere ranked fourth best in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Globally, Makerere ranks below the 500th position, the United States\u2019 universities dominate top slots while institutions in Singapore and China made a strong showing. The University of Oxford was the best overall.}<\/p>\n<p>Makerere University is Africa\u2019s fourth best university, and top-most outside of South Africa, according to the latest world university rankings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur performance was very good in research, but when it came to teaching and learning, we scored very low because 55 per cent of our staff establishment is vacant,\u201d the university Vice Chancellor, Prof John Ssentamu-Ddumba, said of The Times Higher Education World University rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, now in its 12th year, evaluated 980 universities worldwide based on their teaching, research, citations and international outlook. <\/p>\n<p>The methodology blended \u201creputation scores from the past two annual surveys and incorporating books among the research outputs assessed for their impact\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, Makerere ranks below the 500th position, the United States\u2019 universities dominate top slots while institutions in Singapore and China made a strong showing. The University of Oxford was the best overall. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers attribute the \u201csharp rise\u201d of Asian universities in the latest ranking to \u201crapidly growing populations and demand for higher education; governments making \u2018significant investments\u2019 in universities; and improvements by individual institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In East Africa, University of Nairobi is the second best but takes 8th position in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Ddumba told this newspaper last evening that Makerere would frogleap other institutions if the government recruited adequate staff and put more money to buy teaching materials and research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI congratulate my staff that despite the challenges, they can still pull this off,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can improve the teaching and learning, streamline ICT in all colleges, I am confident we can be [at the] top on the continent and [in the] world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>South Africa produced Africa top three universities; University of Cape Town, University of Witwatersrand and Stellenbosch University.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Makerere performance remains impressive, it dropped by one position, having ranked third best on the continent in last year\u2019s The Times Higher Education World University Ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Prof John Asibo-Opuda, the National Council for Higher Education\u2019s executive director, said the high rating of the country\u2019s oldest and largest public university was unsurprising.<\/p>\n<p>Citing research as the university\u2019s strength, he said: \u201cwe have many beautiful universities, but you have to invest in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t suddenly appear in such a ranking. It requires time and money. If the country is not investing in higher education, we can never move forward,\u201d Prof Opuda added.<\/p>\n<p>{{Top in Africa}}<\/p>\n<p>Universities Countries <\/p>\n<p>1.University of Cape Town S.Africa<\/p>\n<p>2.University of Witwatersrand S.Africa<\/p>\n<p>3.Stellenbosch University S.Africa<\/p>\n<p>4.Makerere University Uganda<\/p>\n<p>5.University of KwaZulu-Natal S.Africa<\/p>\n<p>6.University of Pretoria S.Africa<\/p>\n<p>7.University of Ghana Ghana<\/p>\n<p>8.University of Nairobi Kenya<\/p>\n<p>9.Suez Canal University Egypt<\/p>\n<p>10.Alexandria University Egypt<\/p>\n<p>11.Cairo University Egypt<\/p>\n<p>12.Uni of Marrakech Cadi Ayyad Morocco<\/p>\n<p>13.University of South Africa S.Africa<\/p>\n<p>14. University of Ibadan Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>15. Mohammed V Univ of Rabat Morocco<\/p>\n<p>{{Mak factfile}}<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Founded in 1922<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Has 37,340 students, 9 per cent of whom are international students.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Has under half of required staff<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15657 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/news02_pic.jpg\" alt=\"Makerere ranked fourth best in Africa \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Globally, Makerere ranks below the 500th position, the United States\u2019 universities dominate top slots while institutions in Singapore and China made a strong showing. The University of Oxford was the best overall.} Makerere University is Africa\u2019s fourth best university, and top-most outside of South Africa, according to the latest world university rankings. \u201cOur performance was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29344"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29344"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}