Makerere University has been ranked the third among 40 top universities conducting more research on education in the Sub- Saharan Africa. This research was conducted by professors at the faculty of education in Cambridge University.
Makerere came in the third position after the University of Botswana which topped the findings with the highest number of research published on education, the University of Cape Coast in Ghana which came in the second position.
The findings indicated that these top three universities conducted their research on primary education, secondary education, higher education and early childhood education.
The findings further revealed that Makerere University and the University of Cape Coast have published the highest number of articles on Information Communication Technology (ICT).
However the vice chancellor of Makerere University Professor Barnabas Nawangwe posted the ranking saying that Makerere is still ranked second in research on the continent hence it’s impossible that such a research ranks it third.
“That is not possible, the University of Botswana can’t beat us because our only competitor that has challenged us in research is the University of Cape Coast but not Botswana,” Professor Nawangwe said.
He also said that he’s yet to look at the information in the report.
The authors of the report include Prof. Pauline Rose, Dr. Phoebe Downing, Dr. Samuel Aware, Dr. Rafael Mitchell all from Cambridge University and it has been published on the Jacobs Foundation website.
The same report ranked Uganda 5th among top eight countries in sub- Saharan Africa with the highest number of publications with each country having more than 90 pieces. Nigeria tops the countries with highest publications, followed by Ghana, Kenya in the third and Tanzania in the fourth position.
