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How to effectively evaluate Africa's academic research

Michael Mwaisakenyi and Kenneth Gichira, students from JKUAT show guests in a past event how the weeding bot works. [James Wanzala/Standard]

In the past two decades, much progress has been made in academic circles about global rankings of educational institutions.

Bodies such as Times Higher Education and Webometrics regularly rank universities based on a set of criteria. These include internationalisation of faculty and students, cited research publications and awards won by scholars.

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