Innovating university education
Subtitle: issues in contemporary African higher education : a book in honour of Makerere University's 90 years of excellence, 1922-2012
By: editors, Jude Ssempebwa, Peter Neema-Abooki, J.C.S. Musaazi
Publisher: Fountain Publishers
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Kampala [Uganda]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9789970259359
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Universities and colleges; Educational change; Higher Education; Makerere University
Description: Makerere University started in 1922 as a humble technical school enrolling 14 day students of Carpentry, Building and Mechanics. Nine decades later, the University has made giant strides--enrolling over 35,000 students in over 145 study programmes hosted by nine colleges spread across various campuses. As one of the first higher education institutions in East and Central Africa, the university has had to contend with a multiplicity of issues, including relevance, curricula reform, community engagement and graduate employability; access, equity, massification and quality assurance; national politics, regulation, institutional autonomy and academic freedom; funding and financial management; student politics and activism; staff unionisation, management and brain drain; physical resources expansion, utilisation and maintenance; liberalisation, privatisation, commercialisation and internationalisation; Information and Communication Technology (ICT); and institutional leadership and integrity. Today, the University stands out proudly as a hallmark of innovation and excellence in teaching, research and community engagement, notwithstanding the challenges it has experienced over the years. As it celebrates 90 years, the higher education scholarly and policy fraternity take the opportunity to honour and continue the University's tradition of scholarship and innovation -- through contributing ideas for dealing with some of the challenges that the University and similar institutions are contending with. Although studies of Makerere University have been included, it must be understood that this book is not necessarily about the University. Additional studies have been drawn from Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania and other institutions in Uganda--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Higher education for innovation and development / Haruna Yakubu; title: 2. Challenges and opportunities for quality assurance of cross-border higher education in East Africa / Philipo Lonati Sanga; title: 3. William Senteza-Kajubi as a change agent in Uganda's education system with specific reference to widening access to university education / Fred E.K. Bakkabulindi; title: 4. Deregulation of higher education in Nigeria : a call for restraint / A.O.K. Noah, Adesoji A. Oni & Stephen D. Bolaji; title: 5. Do universities in Uganda satisfy their international students? / Jude Ssempebwa, Fawz N. Mulumba & Ritah N. Edopu; title: 6. Attributes of human capital developed by Ugandan universities and students' post-graduation motives / Livingstone Ddungu; title: 7. The importance of research in a university / Mahmood Mamdani; title: 8. University governance and intellectual capital at two universities in Uganda / Karim N.A. Ssesanga; title: 9. Prospective graduates' perception of the responsiveness of Ethiopian universities to contemporary labour market needs / Demewoz Admasu Gebru; title: 10. Challenges of university governance in Malawi / Lester Brian Shawa; title: 11. Organisational commitment of academic staff at universities in Uganda / Edith Namutebi & John Baptist Mpoza; title: 12. Viability of open educational resources in open and distance learning : views of members of the Executive Board of the African Council for Distance Education, Kenya / Vincent Ado Tenebe & Rotimi Ogidan; title: 13. Stereotype threat and university of Botswana teacher trainees' attitude towards their training programme and teaching / H. Johnson Nenty, Phuti Fiji & Moyo Sello.