Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Eastern and Southern Africa

Regional and Continental Perspectives
Herausgeber: Neema-Abooki, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the critical aspect of quality assurance maintenance of competitive standards in African Higher Education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780367692834
• ISBN-10: 036769283X
• Artikelnr.: 62226786

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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