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Making sense of an elusive concept: Academics’ perspectives of quality in higher education
(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. ...
Shared governance in public universities in Uganda: Current concerns and directions for reform
(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
(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 ...
Good teaching: Aligning student and administrator perceptions and expectations
(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 ...
Academics’ perceptions of good teaching: Assessing the degree of parity with student evaluation of teaching questionnaires
(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 ...
Recentralization of local government Chief Administrative Officers appointments in Uganda: Implications for downward accountability
(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 ...
Human resource management in local governments: An analysis of recruitment and selection practices in Uganda
(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 ...
Driving up standards: civil service management and decentralization: Case study of Uganda
(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 ...
Battling Academic Corruption in Higher Education: Does External Quality Assurance Offer a Ray of Hope
(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 ...
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)
(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 ...