An Overview of a Prolific University from Sustainable and Policy Perspective
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Date
2019
Authors
Fayomi OO
Okokpujie IP
Fayomi OS
Udoye NE
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Abstract
This paper is centred on the holistic perspective of prolific university of the world leading university as a guild to Africa university and the lacking factor of Africa University in meeting up new standard in years to come. It compares the best Universities in the world on educational performance such as strength of the best University, Capacity of the prolific University, Research strength of the prolific University, staff input and welfare of the staff and global University rankings. The study involves higher education system, government policies for academic research and related factors to improve the proper running of education system to meet global demands. Furthermore, paper compared academic faculty and staff strength of the two best Universities in the six continents of the world, comprising of Africa. Asia, Austria/Oceania, Europe, North America and South America. Effort is geared towards the management research metrics performance, Total student intake, Faculty –Student ratio, World university rankings and overall score. Finally, this research also discus about a few challenges in university education and their possible solutions in terms of funding research projects, providing adequate training to faculty and staff, and setup committee to give quality academic structure and measures in a better academic environment. There are needs to develop a policy perspective that will aid the African Universities to increase their quality and standard their university to meet up with the world university standard.
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Procedia Manufacturing
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Prolific university, Research strength, Higher education, Challenges, Performance levels
Citation
10.1016/j.promfg.2019.05.050