Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Eastern and Southern Africa: Regional and Continental Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367692841 / Angielski

Peter Neema-Abooki

Opis

This book examines the critical aspect of quality assurance maintenance of competitive-standards in African higher education. It explores both the micro and macro-levels of continental African higher education regulatory authorities, and analyses different institutional, regional and national practices for moving towards continental quality assurance approaches.

Contributed to by scholars across Eastern and Southern Africa, the book considers conceptual, practical, epistemological and policy dimensions of quality and quality assurance, especially in relation to higher education in Africa. It therefore draws on research and local expertise to open up debate about how to assure and enhance the quality of higher education, providing a comprehensive review of eight countries and considers societal challenges. It aims to satisfy the need of more thoughtful and critical works on African education as produced by African educators. The uniqueness of this book lies in integrating both the theoretical and practical dimensions of quality to devise appropriate strategies for ensuring quality and standards in higher education in continental Africa and beyond.

This authoritative book advocates for a timely discussion around the prpvision of good quality higher education and research in African universities, and will be of great interest to academics, policy makers, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of higher education, comparative education and African studies.

Recenzje

"Using the classical definition of ‘quality’ as ‘fitness for purpose’ to assess the outcomes of Higher Education in 21^st Century Africa throws up more questions than answers. On the backdrop of universal basic education and the subsequent massification of Higher Education on the African continent and worldwide, this seminal collection of scholarly reports on quality in African Higher Education is pivotal in the ongoing discourse on the role of Higher Education in societal transformation. The future of Higher Education on the African continent greatly hinges on the direction this debate takes and the consequent investment decisions Africa makes."

Dr. Samuel N. Siminyu, Managing Editor, Makerere University Press

"This book stresses the need to be more focused on the research which will assist educators to put more emphasis on giving knowledge which will develop Africa in accordance to her needs. Cognisant of the fact that we live in a global village, nonetheless, Africa must concentrate on developing her potential endowment in a manner that will make her grow to a level on which she can stand and play her role as an equal partner with other nations.

Professor Peter Neema-Abooki has ably contributed to this research and has thoroughly pointed out that Quality Assurance in Higher Education must treat Africa in her natural setting (sitz im leben) while considering her diversities and her complexities. Though the book has turned a wide scope on Africa, it has not lost sight on International focus. The above approach makes this book a handy reference source for researchers in the academic world, and it is also very useful for planners and administrators especially for governments and religious institutions. The book is an ancillary and a vade mecum, not only for those involved in matters of Higher Education, but also useful to all those with a progressive and inquisitive mind. The thematic style of the Editor will make it easy to grasp the subject even for scholars who tend to be too busy. Professor Neema-Abooki has written this book with all the appetite drawn from the experience he earned from having been a Professor of Higher Educational Management and Administration, Human Resource Management in Education, Educational Policy and Planning, Educational Foundations and Curriculum Studies, Religious and Ethical Studies, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Business and Management; imbued with his international exposure."

The Very Rev Msgr. Thomas Kisembo Apuuli, Commissioner for Amnesty Commission - Uganda, Former Regent (7 years), Toro Kingdom; Former Vicar General, Fort Portal Diocese

"This book has a great theme and it is an anthology of success."

His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Dr. Wamala, Archbishop Emeritus of Kampala Archdiocese, First Bishop of Kiyinda-Mityana Diocese; Former Chaplain of Makerere University

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Quality education in Eastern and Southern Africa: Prospectives and retrospectives

Prof Dr Neema-Abooki

Part 1: Quality Assurance Discourses and Challenges in Higher Education

2. The genesis of quality assurance systems in higher education institutions in Uganda

Lessons for Africa

Proscovia Namubiru Ssentamu & Michael Mawa

3. The genesis of quality and its assurance in African higher education

Benedicto Malunga

4. Quality Assurance in open and distance education in Uganda: Practices and policies at Uganda Management Institute

Jessica Aguti, Lazarus Nabaho, & Wilberforce Turyasingura

5. Internal-Stakeholder-perception of the quality of teacher-educators at Makerere University

Abdu Kisige & Prof Neema-Abooki Peter

6. Marketisation of Higher Education and the quality assurance dilemma in Tanzania

Joel Jonathan Kayombo

　

7. Marketed ‘Quality’ of Higher Education: A Study of Universities’ Websites in South Africa

Anamika Srivastava

8. Academic quality in the public universities in Eastern and Southern Africa: A comparative study of Makerere University and University of Cape Town

Prof Neema-Abooki & Dr Olive Lunyolo

Part 2: Quality Higher Education and Development

9. Quality internship for pre-service teachers: A quest for subject-curricular pedagogic knowledge a mong education student-teachers at the University of Rwanda

Niyibizi, E., Sibomana, E., Manirakiza, V., Ndayambaje, I., Twahirwa, J.B. & Ntabajyana, S.

10. Achieving quality in higher education through curriculum responsiveness Responsive to what?

Kenneth Kamwi Matengu, Ngepathimo Kadhila, & Nangula Iipumbu

11. Quality education: Gazing back to indigenous apprenticeship programmes to achieve quality education for socio-economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kofi Poku Quan-Baffour

12. Determinants of quality doctoral research for sustainable futures in Africa

Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko & Oitshepile MmaB Modise

13. The challenge facing endogenous knowledge, education, and Research in Africa

Adebayo Tajudeen Sanni

14. Futures Thinking: An Agenda for the African Developmental University

Alfred Kitawi

Part 3: Quality Education for Social Justice and Societal Development

15. Towards character formation: The dilemma of behaviour modelling among university students in Sub-Saharan Africa

Florence M. Itegi

16. Inclusive education of visually impaired students in universities in Uganda

Wandera Roberts Otyola & Tumwebaze Callist

17. The language policy and inequalities in institutions of higher learning in South Africa

Deepak Kumar

18. Suggestions for improving the relevance of higher education to social change from the case of the Margaret Trowel School of Industrial and Fine Arts at Makerere University

Ritah Nabuyungo Edopu, Jude Ssempebwa, & John Baptist Mpoza

19. Administration-management distinction in higher education: A quality management perspective

Joseph Watuleke & Prof Neema-Abooki

20. Quality in Adult and Community Education and Training (ACET) in South[ern] Africa

Theoretical Foundations

S. Tawiah & KP Quan-Baffour

Part 4: Quality Assurance in Transnational and International Education

21. Empowering higher education institutions through strengthening internal quality assurance processes: A literature review

Nangula Iipumbu, Kenneth Kamwi Matengu, & Ngepathimo Kadhila

22. Quality assurance of higher education at the African union level: Drivers and approaches

Lazarus Nabaho & Jessica N Aguti

23. Continental approaches to promoting quality assurance in higher education in Africa: An historical reflection

Ngepathimo Kadhila, Nangula Iipumbu, & Kenneth Kamwi Matengu

24. An African developmental agenda for quality assurance in higher education

          Alfred Kitawi & Beatrice Njeru

O autorze

Peter Neema-Abooki is Professor of Higher Educational Management and Administration/ Business and Management. His academic credentials include: Doctor of Philosophy and Masters degrees both in Higher Education, Divinity, Theological and Pastoral Studies, Philosophy and Religious Studies, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and has rendered service as External Quality Assurance Expert for Programme Review at the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) in Namibia.