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UB RANKS TOP ON EDUCATION IN SUB SAHARAN AFRICA

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UB -Vice Chancellor Prof David Norris
The University of Botswana has been ranked first among top Universities conducting research on Education in sub-Saharan Africa. The 2019 "Mapping the landscape of Education Research" places the University of Botswana at the top of a list of 40 universities with the highest number of research published on education in sub-Saharan Africa. The study has been published on the Jacobs Foundation website. Coming after the University of Botswana is Ghana’s University of Cape Coast while Uganda’s Makerere University is in third position. According to the study, these top three universities conducted research on primary education, secondary education, higher education and early childhood education. UB came tops as the most prolific research institution at all phases of education. On adult education, the University of Botswana and the University of Ghana published the most articles with about nine articles each. In addition, UB has done well in terms of collaborations with institutions outside the sub-Saharan African region. Vice Chancellor, Professor David Norris, has expressed delight at the findings, saying it was a great achievement by UB researchers especially that it cemented the fact that the University had great potential to transform into a world class research intensive institution. “I would like to…

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