Comments on: How Aid and Government are Failing Higher Ed in Liberia

By: Benjamin Blie

Benjamin Blie — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:02:39 +0000

I am very grateful for such an article,but feeling ashame of many great Liberian businessman and so called money people in Liberia,that they will see such a big opportunity to invest and complained on government and the international community of not putting their in money into to it. When will we learn?The University of Liberia just give an entrance to over ten thousand or close to twenty students in which they just needed two thousand robbing about twelve thousand and more of funds.Why can’t the facultive of LU plus the person that put in their money put their brains together and make something of that investment.The little one’s are spoon feed and LU where we teach business and economics too are crying for help to maintain investment on campus.It sound silly to me. Let us stop begging Liberians,let us stop corruption and use our head to make the best of little we have.The investment is already there,make the best of it.

By: ksjhalla (Kaushal Jhalla)

ksjhalla (Kaushal Jhalla) — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:26:58 +0000

@kamla you are right abt EJ of Liberia. Lot’s of western interests w/ somewhat mixed outcomes http://tinyurl.com/dxqxz9

By: El Oso » Archive » Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Liberia (And More)

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:27 +0000

[...] a nice write-up of how Radio Gbarpola could use SMS to bring in more revenue.) He documents the sad story of the University of Liberia’s non-existant computer science program. (In the words of Michael Keating, most aid money to Liberia has bypassed the university. Indiana [...]

By: David Sasaki

David Sasaki — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:42:48 +0000

"Indiana University is moving forward with plans to help the University of Liberia gain Internet access. James Wimbush, dean of the Indiana University Graduate School and professor of business administration in the Kelley School of Business, recently visited the West African nation and says the country continues to suffer the aftereffects of a civil war that ended in 2003. He says a top priority could be to provide technical assistance in laying fiber optic cable to link the University of Liberia's three campuses. " http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=32745

By: Charles Reafsnyder

Charles Reafsnyder — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:22:42 +0000

The missing link for Liberia is access to internet bandwidth at internationallu competitive rates. The SATV suppliers to Liberia currently have no land-based competition and charge approximately $5,000 per megabit per month! Neither the University of Liberia nor many others in Liberia can afford monopolistic rates. By contrast, my university pays $12 per megabit per month. Until the monolopy on bandwidth into Liberia can be broken, the current rates being charged will deprive the University of Liberia and most Liberians from the information resources available to much of the rest of the world with the attendent damage to Liberian education, economy, health and political development.

By: jscarantino (Josef Scarantino)

jscarantino (Josef Scarantino) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:30:48 +0000

RT @whiteafrican Missing an opportunity – The failed computer science program at the Univ of Liberia: http://is.gd/m0hE

By: Michael Keating

Michael Keating — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:53:31 +0000

Most of the aid to education is bypassing the University. In the case of the University of Liberia a new President, Dr. Emmet Dennis, has just been named. His job is a massive one: organization, infrastructure, ethics and endowment. After President Sirleaf he may have the toughest job in the country. It’s hard to see how Liberia can progress without at least one credible research institution.

By: philosopher20 (Tony Wang)

philosopher20 (Tony Wang) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:36:01 +0000

RT @cansar: RT @Missing This story is unbelievable! The failure of a computer science program at the Univ of Liberia: http://is.gd/m0hE

By: less aid, better aid, more trade. «

less aid, better aid, more trade. « — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:19:52 +0000

[...] Posted in Uncategorized by sanstis on March 6th, 2009 The chaos that aid causes, through White African. Since the war ended in 2003, there has been well over a billion dollars of AID money pumped into [...]

By: jessverr (Jessica Verrilli)

jessverr (Jessica Verrilli) — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:26:17 +0000

@heidiserene a Liberia article for u: http://tinyurl.com/dxqxz9