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Teaching-learning quality assurance benchmarks and characteristics that promote learner outcomes among Public Administration students at Uganda Management Institute: An exploratory study.
(International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2013-03)In today’s academic environment, leaders at higher educational institutions face increasing demands as stakeholders’ expectations rise and resources diminish (Randall and Coakley, 2007). This paper examines student’s ... -
Higher Education-Community Partnership: Extricating Value Addition with specific reference to student internship
(Kampala International University Research Journal (KIURJ), 2017-07)The paper discusses higher education-community partnerships, such as students’ internships and research that are often intended to promote quality, relevance, skills’ enrichment and socio-economic development. The paper ... -
Politics in staff representation and democracy in higher education institutions in Uganda: extricating the actors' intentions
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2017)The article examines the influence of representative politics on democracy in higher education institutions (HEIs). The research attempted to answer three main questions: (1) What are the intentions of the aspirants in ... -
Intellectual Curiosity or deception: An Investigation into the Practice of teaching outside Area of Expertise in Uganda
(Makerere Journal of Higher Education (MAJOHE), 2017)Teaching outside one’s area of expertise is increasingly common in higher education institutions (HEIs). Yet institutions and scholars are treating the subject as a taboo. Debate on the subject has been kept hush-hush—citing ... -
Health remedy fallacies strike social media: what is the role of development education?
(African Journal of Governance and Development, 2019-12)The advent of social media has resulted in unequalled excitement but also risks, especially when postings are health-related and not supported by scientific evidence. Unfortunately, the majority of social media users tend ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Quality of Health Care Delivered in Low and High Task Shifting Environments in Uganda. Implications for Policy.
(Journal of Human Resource Management, 2020-01-08)With the increasing global health workers shortage, developing countries like Uganda are embracing task shifting as a form of availing health care amidst the growing population and increasing disease burden. This study ... -
The invisible accomplishments of faculty in Ugandan Universities: An ‘Iceberg Tip Metaphor’
(Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2021-10)The evaluation of faculty accomplishments has remained unresolved and contentious, threatening the quality of all university functions. Whereas performance evaluation of faculty is derived from their mandate of ... -
A paradox in the supervision of doctoral candidates in Ugandan higher education institutions (HEIs)
(International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2021-12)The paper examines the dynamics and complex dimensions in doctoral supervision in different disciplinary contexts in higher education institutions (HEIs), given that institutional success and reputation depends on ‘research ... -
Differentiation of Higher Education Institutions in Uganda and their Philosophies: Is it Diversion or Inclusion?
(Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2021-09)This article discusses university diversions from their original purposes in order to achieve economic independence and sustainability. While these institutions are social systems that reconcile contradictory functions, ... -
Establishing the viability of an institution ethnography inquiry to diagnose university culture
(Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2021-05)This article proposes an ‘institution ethnography inquiry’ to establish dominant university culture to unravel hidden censures which have led to a divisive, deceptive and uncivil culture that has disrupted the normative ... -
Collegial Cooperation turns toxic: Its depth and breadth: What are the implications for higher education institutions (HEIs)?
(Journal of Educational Research and Reviews, 2021-02)Collegiality has been glorified as the strongest governance pillar for higher education institutions, especially in promoting independence of thought, impartial decisions on leadership, mutual respect, and providing peer ... -
A treatise to my learned friend and the Attorney at law
(Marianum Press Ltd, 2020)More often than not the law is usually argued to be a sworn commitment to asset of absolute fixed ideas within rigidly narrow parameters. The letter of the law is often framed in absolutes, stated in black and white but ... -
Freedom through law
(Jescho Publishing House, 2021)Law might be understood as a set of rules which are generally obeyed and enforced within a politically organized society -
Fashion, design and entertainment law in Uganda
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Fashion is literally defined to mean a popular or the latest style of clothing, hair, decoration or behavior. Fashion law can be defined as an amalgamation of various kinds of laws viz contract law, employment law, consumer ... -
Exorcising the inexorcible Buganda Ghost
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Exorcising the inexorcible Buganda ghost: Hoodwinked, Dumped, Used and re-dumped; A quest for Buganda's cause for Buganda's independence. Buganda in response to their proposals, were invariably faced either cynical ... -
Digital Money
(Jescho Publishing House, 2022)Crypto currencies are digital assets that are designed to effect electronic payments without the participation of a central authority or intermediary such as a Central Bank or licensed financial institution. -
Demystifying "The Order from above"
(Jescho Publishing House, 2021)The law of criminal procedure lays down the machinery by which suspects are brought to court, tried and if found guilty, punished. Criminal procedure can also be defined as the means by which criminal law is enforced and ... -
Public Private Partnerships
(The 5th Annual International Conference on Public Administration and Development Alternatives, 2020-10-07)Given the constraints of governments to deliver health care, engaging private investment in the form of public-private partnership (PPP) is gaining popularity. The aim of present study is to review the rationale and types ... -
AFLI Policy brief on the special question of urban refugees in Uganda
(African Leadership Institute, 2018-07-09)As the number of displaced persons exceeded the Second World War spike, the international community and host governments continue to grapple for durable solutions. Uganda faces the problem of surging number of refugees ... -
AFLI Policy brief on integrating human rights in regulation of media practice in Uganda
(African Leadership Institute, 2019)Despite ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 19) and recognition of freedom of opinion and expression by the Constitution of Uganda (1995), state and media practitioners continue to clash ...