Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Eastern and Southern Africa

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.

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




The genesis of quality assurance systems in higher education institutions in Uganda
Lessons for Africa

Proscovia Namubiru Ssentamu & Michael Mawa




The genesis of quality and its assurance in African higher education
Benedicto Malunga




Quality Assurance in open and distance education in Uganda: Practices and policies at Uganda Management Institute
Jessica Aguti, Lazarus Nabaho, & Wilberforce Turyasingura




Internal-Stakeholder-perception of the quality of teacher-educators at Makerere University
Abdu Kisige & Prof Neema-Abooki Peter




Marketisation of Higher Education and the quality assurance dilemma in Tanzania
Joel Jonathan Kayombo






Marketed ‘Quality’ of Higher Education: A Study of Universities’ Websites in South Africa
Anamika Srivastava




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




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.




Achieving quality in higher education through curriculum responsiveness Responsive to what?
Kenneth Kamwi Matengu, Ngepathimo Kadhila, & Nangula Iipumbu




Quality education: Gazing back to indigenous apprenticeship programmes to achieve quality education for socio-economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kofi Poku Quan-Baffour




Determinants of quality doctoral research for sustainable futures in Africa
Rebecca Nthogo Lekoko & Oitshepile MmaB Modise




The challenge facing endogenous knowledge, education, and Research in Africa
Adebayo Tajudeen Sanni




Futures Thinking: An Agenda for the African Developmental University
Alfred Kitawi

Part 3: Quality Education for Social Justice and Societal Development




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




Inclusive education of visually impaired students in universities in Uganda
Wandera Roberts Otyola & Tumwebaze Callist




The language policy and inequalities in institutions of higher learning in South Africa
Deepak Kumar




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




Administration-management distinction in higher education: A quality management perspective
Joseph Watuleke & Prof Neema-Abooki




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




Empowering higher education institutions through strengthening internal quality assurance processes: A literature review
Nangula Iipumbu, Kenneth Kamwi Matengu, & Ngepathimo Kadhila




Quality assurance of higher education at the African union level: Drivers and approaches
Lazarus Nabaho & Jessica N Aguti




Continental approaches to promoting quality assurance in higher education in Africa: An historical reflection
Ngepathimo Kadhila, Nangula Iipumbu, & Kenneth Kamwi Matengu




An African developmental agenda for quality assurance in higher education

Alfred Kitawi & Beatrice Njeru