Browsing Staff Publications by Author "Nabaho, Lazarus"
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Academics’ perceptions of good teaching: Assessing the degree of parity with student evaluation of teaching questionnaires
Nabaho, Lazarus; Oonyu, Joseph; Aguti, Jessica N. (Africa Education Review, 2018)There is a dearth of studies on academics’ perceptions of good teaching in transitional economies such as Uganda and the degree of parity between academics’ conceptions of good teaching and the items in the student ... -
Battling Academic Corruption in Higher Education: Does External Quality Assurance Offer a Ray of Hope
Nabaho, Lazarus; Turyasingura, Wilberforce (Higher Learning Research Communications, 2019-06-17)The post-1980s changes in the global higher education landscape have triggered a burgeoning of incidents of academic corruption in higher education institutions. Since 2000, the discourse on how to combat academic ... -
Driving up standards: civil service management and decentralization: Case study of Uganda
Nabaho, Lazarus (Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2012-12)There is a consensus that decentralization by devolution leads to improved service delivery, but debate on the appropriate type of personnel arrangements for delivering decentralized services is far from over. Put ... -
An exploration of the ‘African (Union Commission’s) perspective’ of quality and quality assurance in higher education: Latent voices in the African Quality Rating Mechanism (AQRM)
Nabaho, Lazarus; Turyasingura, Wilberforce (Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 2019-04-19)Quality assurance of African higher education is at the top of the region’s development agenda. Prompted by the imperative to enhance the quality of higher education, the Africa Union Commission is implementing the African ... -
Good teaching: Aligning student and administrator perceptions and expectations
Nabaho, Lazarus; Oonyu, Joseph; Aguti, Jessica N. (Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017-06)Extant literature attests to limited systematic inquiry into students’ perceptions of good teaching in higher education. Consequently, there have been calls for engaging students in construing what makes good university ... -
Human resource management in local governments: An analysis of recruitment and selection practices in Uganda
Nabaho, Lazarus; Kiiza, Alfred (The Journal of African & Asian Local Government Studies, 2013)The transfer of staff hiring and firing decisions from the central government to the district local governments through the District Service Commissions (DSCs) is considered to be one of the cornerstones of the Ugandan ... -
Making sense of an elusive concept: Academics’ perspectives of quality in higher education
Nabaho, Lazarus; Aguti, Jessica N.; Oonyu, Joseph (Higher Learning Research Communications, 2017-11)Objective: Since the 1990s studies on how stakeholders in higher education perceive quality have burgeoned. Nevertheless, the majority of studies on perception of quality in higher education focus on students and employers. ... -
Recentralization of local government Chief Administrative Officers appointments in Uganda: Implications for downward accountability
Nabaho, Lazarus (Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2013-11)The Uganda Constitution of 1995 spelt out the principle of decentralization by devolution. Accordingly, from 1995 to 2005, district local governments had a dejure mandate to hire and fire all categories of civil servants ... -
Shared governance in public universities in Uganda: Current concerns and directions for reform
Nabaho, Lazarus (International Journal of African Higher Education, 2018)This article focuses on Makerere University and Kyambogo University to highlight stakeholders’ concerns pertaining to the shared governance framework for public universities in Uganda. It is anchored in the interpretivist ... -
Using a performance measurement framework to overcome the odds against performance management in the public sector
Nabaho, Lazarus (African Journal of Public Affairs, 2011)The importance of measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of governmental programmes features prominently in almost every discourse related to programme monitoring and evaluation. Phrases like ‘what gets measured gets ...