The 50 years
old most prestigious and reputed University in Tanzania have been ranked 23rd
position in the latest rankings on ICT usage among world Universities. From
last year’s position 13th simply means something should be done and
more effort t to be invested to recover from the fall.
Although we
have to realize that, UDSM is the only high learning institution in Tanzania to
make out that position in this year contest. Also, the
country has climbed up the scale by 1,437 places, from position 3.415 in 2011
to position 1,978 this year.
The rankings
were done by the company Webo Metrics and
it was released July this year. Only one University from Tanzania has made it to the top
hundreds best universities for ICT usage in Africa.
Hint,
“The webometrics University ranking is a ranking system based on university web
presence, visibility and web access. This ranking measure how strong a
university is present in the web by its own web domain, subpages, rich files,
and scholarly articles”
The
legendary University of Cape Town has
again retained its position in this year’s competition, followed by four other
South African higher learning institutions closing the top five of the rankings
in Africa.
On our
region the East Africa region, Makerere University of Uganda heads the region
with the 11th position in Africa and 1,173 globally, nearby
contenders where the University of Kenya at 14th position ranking
1,435 globally.
Prof.
Makenya Maboko UDSM vice chancellor justifying the situation he said “it
doesn’t mean we are unconcern about this, but basically this does not reflect
much on the quality of education”. He said there are so many other factors to
consider what he referred as “website
updating”.
However, the
rankings are not based on research, teaching, number of citations, ability to
create internally generated funds as well as international outlook measured by
the proportional of the international staff and students at institutions in the
field.
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Jumanne Mtambalike (gTech360) is a Software Engineer,IT consultant and Web designer based in Africa, currently living in Dar es Salaam Tanzania