Author : Kingstone Ngwira
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 49,41 MB
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 150496974X
This journal has examined a contemporary picture of the major aspects of employment practices (laws, government policies, employee rights), organizing my approach around the major themes of employment practices, the regulatory framework, and government policies, and employee rights of the employee practices landscape have been reviewed, while scope has existed to explore new influences on the employment practices in Malawi.
Author : Kingstone Ngwira
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1504972139
This book is about quality assurance for higher education institutions in Malawi and is a must read book for quality assurance professionals and experts, higher education institution managers and leaders, quality assurance review team for national council for higher education, and nonquality assurance professionals who want to better understand the quality assurance in higher education institutions. The author is convinced that the aforementioned targets will have much to gain through this unique book, which is being brought out as a tool kit on quality assurance in higher education. The book was developed from a conviction that quality assurance in higher education institutions is the bedrock, heart, and soul of higher education provision and is designed to promote a culture of quality in higher education institutions. In developing this book, a number of literature sources were consulted from other higher education institutions in Africa and in the European higher education area in general and the Malawis National Council for Higher Education (NCHE)s Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Malawis higher education institutions in particular.
Author : Malizani Jimu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9956553034
This book is empirically grounded on Ignasio Malizani Jimu's firsthand experience of governance and quality control in Malawi higher education. Informed by the liberalisation of higher education and the quality turn in Africa, this book reflects on higher education policy, how higher education institutions manage their core business processes, the dynamic character of their stakeholdership and governance and management arrangements that are involved. Its primary purpose is to contribute to the discourse on increasing access to, regulation of and more importantly the pursuit of quality culture in higher education. Key questions, insights and directions have been packaged in eight chapters, some of which are: the purpose and inclusion in higher education, stakeholdership, context and quality culture in private higher education institutions, peer reviews as quality control mechanism, quality rating of institutions and setting and operating quality assurance units. It is intended for higher education managers, policy makers and students of higher education management.
Author : Peter Neema-Abooki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000426386
This book examines the critical aspect of quality assurance maintenance of competitive-standards in African higher education. It explores both the micro and macro-levels of continental African higher education regulatory authorities, and analyses different institutional, regional and national practices for moving towards continental quality assurance approaches. Contributed to by scholars across Eastern and Southern Africa, the book considers conceptual, practical, epistemological and policy dimensions of quality and quality assurance, especially in relation to higher education in Africa. It therefore draws on research and local expertise to open up debate about how to assure and enhance the quality of higher education, providing a comprehensive review of eight countries and considers societal challenges. It aims to satisfy the need of more thoughtful and critical works on African education as produced by African educators. The uniqueness of this book lies in integrating both the theoretical and practical dimensions of quality to devise appropriate strategies for ensuring quality and standards in higher education in continental Africa and beyond. This authoritative book advocates for a timely discussion around the prpvision of good quality higher education and research in African universities, and will be of great interest to academics, policy makers, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of higher education, comparative education and African studies.
Author : Peter Neema-Abooki
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 100063700X
This book explores quality assessment and enhancement in higher education in Africa to illustrate the need to develop quality practices in measuring effective education and continually search for permanent improvement. The book demonstrates that technological and socio-economic trends, innovations, and inventions of the twenty-first century demand that additional attention be placed upon education for national, regional, and international development. Since conventions for quality assessment and enhancement need to be defined and systematic structures constructed to develop quality practices, the book shows how quality in higher education within Africa has been established and advanced to provide a framework for monitoring, auditing, and reviewing assessment and enhancement. Though the book considers African complexities and diversity, it incorporates global trends and utilises an international focus that enables readers to devise appropriate strategies for developing and enhancing quality and standards in higher education in both continental Africa and beyond. Illustrating why quality assessment and enhancement should be embraced in all aspects including inputs, processes, outputs and outcomes in educational settings globally, this book will be of interest to policymakers and scholars in the fields of Higher Education, Quality and Global Studies, African Education, African Studies and Management and Administration, Leadership and Professional Development Studies.
Author : Sony, Michael
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1522598316
Although initially utilized in business and industrial environments, quality management systems can be adapted into higher education to assess and improve an institution’s standards. These strategies are now playing a vital role in educational areas such as teaching, learning, and institutional-level practices. However, quality management tools and models must be adapted to fit with the culture of higher education. Quality Management Implementation in Higher Education: Practices, Models, and Case Studies is a pivotal reference source that explores the challenges and solutions of designing quality management models in the current educational culture. Featuring research on topics such as Lean Six Sigma, distance education, and student supervision, this book is ideally designed for school board members, administrators, deans, policymakers, stakeholders, professors, graduate students, education professionals, and researchers seeking current research on the applications and success factors of quality management systems in various facets of higher education.
Author : Kingstone Ngwira
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 154623005X
This book is a must-read book for everyone who would want to see Malawi transformed from poverty to a wealthy nation. The book was developed from a conviction that Malawi seriously needs a vibrant economic system that would create its own wealth in all subsectors of the economy. It is envisaged that if the strategic management principles and concepts presented in this book are applied, our nation will enjoy wealth because it will become wealthier. The solution to challenges facing Malawi require us to seriously rethink the crafting of a long-term vision and mission statement that should be directly linked with long-term development strategy and should be backed up by well-defined, long-term implementation of goals that will see both private and public sectors being adaptive, revolutionized, reconstructed, created, and recreated in some instances, and it should not forget the stakeholder management approach. To achieve this goal comes the three players that form the economy to participate in running the total economy. These players are the individuals (households), firms, and the state. The individuals and the firms form the microeconomics and the private sector while the state forms the macroeconomics and the public sector. This is a call for a vibrant private sector and a new public management. Topics include the following: Creation or recreation? The nations wealth Strategic moves for becoming wealthy The nature of the public and private sectors Creating vibrant private and public sector reforms
Author : Zilla Sinuany-Stern
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 303074051X
This handbook covers various areas of Higher Education (HE) in which operations research/management science (OR/MS) techniques are used. Key examples include: international comparisons, university rankings, and rating academic efficiency with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); formulating academic strategy with balanced scorecard; budgeting and planning with linear and quadratic models; student forecasting; E-learning evaluation; faculty evaluation with questionnaires and multivariate statistics; marketing for HE; analytic and educational simulation; academic information systems; technology transfer with systems analysis; and examination timetabling. Overviews, case studies and findings on advanced OR/MS applications in various functional areas of HE are included.
Author : Philip G. Altbach
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,78 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0821388061
This book examines the experience of 11 universities in nine countries around the world that have grappled with the challenge of building successful research institutions in difficult circumstances and outlines key lessons of from this experience.
Author : Ssempebwa, Jude
Publisher : Fountain Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9970259350
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.
