University of Nairobi Towers in Nairobi City | photo Caleb Korir - JEDCA MEDIA
Nairobi, JAN 15 – Nine Universities in Kenya has been ranked among the top 100 universities in Africa.
According to UniRank latest survey. University of Nairobi is ranked sixth battling out with South Africa’s Universities which has 7 universities in top 10. Kenyatta University was ranked 28, Strathmore University 42, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology 49, Mount Kenya University 51.
Other Kenyan Universities that made to top 100 includes United States International University Africa at position 65, Egerton University at 81, Moi University at 82 and Kenya Methodist University at position 97.
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South Africa’s University of Cape Town was ranked the best university in Africa followed by six other universities from the same country including University of Withwatersrand (2), University of Pretoria (3), Stellenbosch University (4).
Other varsities from S.A featuring in top 10 includes University of KwaZulu-Natal (7), University of Johannesburg (8), and North West University at position 9.
Some of the metrics for ranking these universities includes but not limited to: research, knowledge transfer, international outlook, and teaching. It also included accreditation by by relevant higher education bodies in their countries.
Academic fraud
While the quality of university education is rising sharply in Africa, cases of education fraud involving fake degrees and certificates have been reported in the continent.
Nigeria recently banned degrees from Kenya and Uganda citing fraud in the way the degrees in the mentioned countries were awarded to its citizens.
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In a televised interview, Education Minister Tahir Mamman highlighted other countries which they have been banned from awarding degrees to Nigerians. These countries are Togo and Benin.
“We are going to stop at just Benin and Togo. We are going to extend the dragnet to countries like Uganda, Kenya (and) even Niger… where such institutions have been set up,” Mamman said.
Mamman added that he is not going to sympathize on anyone with a fake degree from foreign
countries. He said that it actions are criminal in nature.
“I have no sympathy for those with fake certificates from foreign countries. They are not victims but part of the criminal chain that should be arrested,” he said.
The crackdown on fake degrees in Nigeria came following an undercover investigation by Nigerian reporter Umar Audu, which detailed how a bachelors degree can be awarded in only two months from Benin University despite the course requiring four years of studies.
