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Why our varsities score poorly in global rankings


Early this year, the Cybermetric Lab from the Spanish national research council, released the most prominent ranking of world universities involving over 28,000 institutions. Most Kenyan universities, I guess, must have avoided checking their global positioning—no one can brave a rank that looks like a barcode. On February 7, 2020, The Standard wrote an editorial in which it challenged our universities to rethink their global positioning. This is an overdue conversation.

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