1st Edition

Quality Assessment and Enhancement in Higher Education in Africa

Edited By Peter Neema-Abooki Copyright 2023
    322 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This book explores quality assessment and enhancement in higher education in Africa to illustrate the need to develop quality practices in measuring effective education and continually search for permanent improvement.

    The book demonstrates that technological and socio-economic trends, innovations, and inventions of the twenty-first century demand that additional attention be placed upon education for national, regional, and international development. Since conventions for quality assessment and enhancement need to be defined and systematic structures constructed to develop quality practices, the book shows how quality in higher education within Africa has been established and advanced to provide a framework for monitoring, auditing, and reviewing assessment and enhancement. Though the book considers African complexities and diversity, it incorporates global trends and utilises an international focus that enables readers to devise appropriate strategies for developing and enhancing quality and standards in higher education in both continental Africa and beyond.

    Illustrating why quality assessment and enhancement should be embraced in all aspects including inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes in educational settings globally, this book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars in the fields of Higher Education, Quality and Global Studies, African Education, African Studies and Management and Administration, Leadership and Professional Development Studies.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: Quality Higher Education in. Africa: Assessment and Enhancement Perspectives. Peter Neema-Abooki  Part I: Global Focus on Quality Assurance in Higher Education Chapter 2 Quality Assurance in Higher Education in the Global Context Anamika Srivastava  Chapter 3 A global review of quality assurance and quality enhancement in higher education Alfred Kitawi  Chapter 4 Factors Influencing Quality in Higher Education within the Global Context Benedicto Wokomaatani Malunga  Part II: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education  Chapter 5 Teacher Preparation by Universities and Implications to quality Education in Uganda: Internal-Stakeholder-Perception of Pre-Service Teacher Education at Makerere University Abdu Kisige and Peter Neema-Abooki  Chapter 6 Open Distance E-Learning as the producer of space for quality assessment in higher education. Nomanesi Madikizela-Madiya  Chapter 7 Open Educational Resources/Practices (OER/P) in the era of a pandemic Lessons for Developing Countries. Anass Bayaga  Chapter 8 Reimagining Quality Assurance in African Higher Education Post Covid-19: Towards A Quest for Fitness for Purpose Ngepathimo Kadhila, John Nyambe, Kenneth Matengu  Chapter 9 Ubuntu and Transformative Pedagogy for Quality Education and Training in Community Colleges in South Africa. K P Quan-Baffour  Chapter 10 Tanzania higher education institutional internal quality assurance and enhancement in the market framework: Challenges and remedies Joel Jonathan Kayombo  Chapter 11 Quality Assurance for Pedagogical Enhancement in African Higher Education: A Comparative Case Study of the Namibian and the South African Quality Assurance Models John Nyambe, Ngepathimo Kadhila, & Kenneth Matengu  Chapter 12 Examining the Policy Implications of Massification of Higher Education in Zimbabwe How Quality was inevitably Compromised GN Shava   Part III: Research and Quality in Higher Education  Chapter 13 Raising African voices in scholarly publishing: Implications of a university press in scholarship Prof Dr Opuda-Asibo John  Chapter 14 Management of Research-related Issues in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: A case of Makerere and Nairobi Universities in East Africa  Peter Neema-Abooki and George William Lubega Kajura  Chapter 15 Assessment and Enhancement of Doctoral Students’ Supervision and Implications on Quality of Research Outputs: Ethical Perspectives Florence M. Itegi  Chapter 16 Assessing and Enhancing Quality in Higher Education through the African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM): Approach and Outcomes Lazarus Nabaho and Wilberforce Turyasingura  Chapter 17 Concluding Chapter: Assessment and Enhancement: Quality Perspectives in Higher Education, Peter Neema-Abooki

    Biography

    Peter Neema-Abooki is Professor of Higher Educational Management and Administration / Business and Management in Uganda; and he is a professional trained educationist. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is now an Academic Associate at the University of South Africa (UNISA). He has rendered services as External Quality Assurance Expert for Programme-Review at the Namibia National Council for Higher Education.