A key member of the Leadership and Site Evaluation Experts for the Association of African Universities (AAU)/World Bank-Funded Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) Project, Professor Zvogbo Rungomo has described the University of Ibadan as the "Oxford of Africa".
Rungomo, vice-chancellor of Great Zimbabwe University, Masvingo, Zimbabwe, made the remark during a courtesy call by the experts on the University of Ibadan vice-chancellor, Prof Isaac Adewole, on Monday.
He said UI was not an institution to be evaluated because of its stunning achievements.
"I am here to offer myself for sound education in these Centres of Excellence, and I also urge you to leave opportunities for growing universities to be tutored under your great centres of excellence," he said.
Adewole said UI would key into the African Union agenda to "train graduates not only for Nigeria but for the African continent."
He added that the University of Ibadan has the largest postgraduate enrollment in Africa and its goal is to train a large human power that will proffer solutions to problems in Africa through research.
Earlier, Prof. Jonathan Mba, the Director of Academic Planning and African Centre of Excellence Coordinator of the Association of African Universities (AAU) who is the team leader said the evaluation team's goal is to investigate the leadership and management capacity of the university in its proposed Centres of Excellence.
The university has proposed establishment of at least three centres -facilitated by UI's Research Foundation- to the AAU: African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), Centre for Advanced Agricultural Training and Translation Research (CAATTR) and the Centre for Analysis, Modelling, Simulation and Computation (CAMSIC).
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