Empirical Analysis on the Effect of Antecedents of the University of Nairobi’s Academic Quality: Based on SEM Model

the reputation satisfaction (with mean 3.2), reputation influenced institution selection, alumni employability (with mean 4.1) and the ratio of domestic to international students (2.5) have the highest means compared to the Nobel prize aligned preference variable (mean value 1.4). If it regards performance, the participation in per capita activity variable (mean value 0.1) is the least activity while the research impact transformation (4.3) and the education quality (4.9) have the highest contribution of the mean activity. Based on the above parameter characteristic, an overview of these parameters shows them as relatively significant and important in describing the constructed variables important in demystifying relevant contribution of the constructs to represent the academic quality of the university of Nairobi. Abstract: The empirical robustness affirmation of the effect of academic parameters on the academic quality of the University of Nairobi(UON) is what this study concerns. The study is as well integrated and dynamic in approach but based on a different set of primary data from that implied in previous related studies. It is regarding the key parameters under concern, and, specific objective is; -Implicating how (inter-)relational association and effects that key parameters of higher academia postulates on the academic quality of this university based on Empirical integration of primary data through assimilation of UON’s Times Higher Education (THE)’s academic quality assessment through its variables and weights allocation in comparison to ‘world class universities performance , usually perceived as homologous and divergent in structural actuation, and the justification of relevance of the integral scenario for academic benchmarking. Most importantly the study aims at explicating the influential impact, interrelations and correlational of key parameters of concern based on THE’s integrated model (i.e., research, performance, teaching, attitude and internalization) on academic quality of UON while using deeply enshrined data generating structural dataset and models that are best known to capture well primary dataset underlining relations. This exercise is also in a bid to ascertain the relevant and key effects/impacts reported in the previous studies. The overall empirical errand is an extension of the objective of the study to generally address the temporal academic variances amid UON’s academic transformation. depicting the learner attitude component. The general insight presented depict that the five variables best depict the academic quality of the university of the Nairobi. With this notation, we are confident that the path identified relevantly he causal direction of the observed and the latent variable to academic quality of higher institutions. A general overview of the depictions of Figure 1 overly converges to Figures which IS demonstrating the parameters of the baseline model for UON. Insights of the parameters has noted it to be significant in latency modelling of teaching, performance, attitude, internationalization and research which have been noted to be important in affecting the academic quality the higher institutions. It is key to note that these are the variables which would be implied for baseline modeling. However, we also delve the path analysis of other set of data to be implored when the effect of new variables research policy practicability and ranking reputation/reliability is implicated into the baseline models. The data set is graphed in Figure 1. That of UONhas been presented in figure