Makerere University as a Flagship Institution: Sustaining the Quest for Relevance

Bisaso, Ronald

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“…Studies that utilize national-level higher education policy and legal frameworks (e.g. Bisaso, 2011Bisaso, , 2017Varghese, 2013Varghese, , 2016Melu, 2016;Nabaho, 2019) revealed that a number of states in Africa have, since 2000, retreated from the state-control model of higher education governance and embraced the state supervising model. An inference from the discourse above is that the dominant higher education governance model in AUC member states could have shaped AUC's perspective regarding how the sector should be steered at the moment and in the African Higher Education and Research Space that is envisioned under the African Higher Education Harmonization Strategy.…”

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“…The post-2000 higher education governance reforms in Africa can be nested in van Vught's (1989) topology. Africa has witnessed a shift from direct state control of universities to state supervision of higher education institutions (see Bisaso, 2017;Oanda & Sall, 2016;Sall & Oanda, 2014;Varghese, 2016). Therefore, the role of the state has metamorphosed from direct steering of higher education to providing a framework for effective functioning of the higher education system and ensuring that higher education serves the interests of the public, is equitable, and is responsive to societal needs (Varghese, 2016).…”

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Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space

Nabaho

Turyasingura

Kiiza

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In 2018, as part of the African higher education harmonisation drive, the African Union Commission (AUC) issued the African Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ASG-QA). Within the ASG-QA, the AUC commits to promoting good governance and management in higher education institutions and provides governance and management as the second standard. However, there is a dearth of knowledge about the governance and management architecture for higher education institutions in the African higher education landscape that is either implicit or explicit in the ASG-QA. Against the above backdrop—using the ASG-QA as a source of data and content analysis as a data analysis method—the paper examines the governance and management imperative for higher education institutions in the African higher education landscape from the perspective of the AUC. Six themes relating to Africa’s higher education governance and management landscape emerged from the data: the role of the state (or government) in higher education, the internal governance framework, focus on quality and quality enhancement, observance of values of higher education, adherence to the principles of good governance, and capable leadership. The findings suggest that the governance and management architecture under the ASG-QA leans more towards providing common standards for quality assessment of governance and management than creating an identical national higher education governance and management ecosystem across Africa.

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Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space

Nabaho

Turyasingura

Kiiza

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“…The evolution of higher education in Uganda can be traced to the establishment of Makerere University in 1922 that began life as a technical college (Mamdani, 2007) and assumed the status of a university college affiliated to the University of London in 1949 (Bisaso, 2017). Under the affiliation arrangement, Makerere University offered academic programmes leading to the general degrees of the University of London (Nabaho, Aguti and Oonyu, 2017).…”

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“…The post-1980s era has witnessed a proliferation of both public and private universities in Uganda (Bisaso, 2017). The country's current higher education landscape comprises of eight public universities and one public other degree-awarding institution.…”

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“…Makerere University can be analysed in terms of the evolution of higher education in Uganda and as one of the public universities in the country. It is the oldest university in Uganda and East Africa and in 2011 it transitioned from a faculty-based to a collegiate university (Bisaso, 2017). The university comprises ten colleges which are structured into schools and teaching departments (Nabaho, 2017).…”

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Shared Governance in Public Universities in Uganda: Current Concerns and Directions for Reform

Nabaho

2019

IJAHE

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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 interpretive lens and the data was derived from three state-sponsored reports on the two public universities. The secondary data were analyzed using content analysis. The findings demonstrate that the size, composition, authority, and effectiveness of the university council and the senate and the mode through which leaders assume office, are the salient governance concerns in the two universities. The results further show that, stakeholders’ concerns regarding the current shared governance framework for public universities relate to the substance of the framework rather than its form or the framework itself. This suggests that the governance framework comprising the university council, the university senate and the administration is fit for purpose and in sync with the nature of the academy. Arguably, these governance organs (and the nature of their work) set a university apart from other organisations. Finally, without being prescriptive, the article sketches options for reform.Le présent article se concentre sur l’Université de Makerere et l’Université de Kyambogo pour mettre en lumière l’inquiétude des parties prenantes au sujet du modèle de gouvernance partagée dans les universités publiques en Ouganda. Il adopte un point de vue interprétativiste et s’appuie sur des données issues de trois rapports commandités par l’Etat sur ces deux universités publiques. Les données secondaires ont été traitées par une analyse de contenu. Les résultats démontrent que la taille, la composition, l’autorité et l’efficacité du conseil universitaire et du sénat de l’université, et la façon dont les dirigeants exercent leurs fonctions sont les principaux sujets d’inquiétude en ce qui concerne la gouvernance de ces deux universités. Les résultats démontrent également que les inquiétudes des parties prenantes au sujet du modèle actuel de gouvernance partagée des universités publiques porte sur le contenu de ce modèle, plus que sur sa forme ou sur le modèle lui-même. Cela montre que le modèle de gouvernance qui comprend le conseil universitaire, le sénat de l’université et l’administration répond aux attentes et est en cohérence avec l’environnement académique.On peut considérer que ces organes de gouvernance (et la nature de leur travail) différencient l’université d’autres types d’organisations. Enfin, sans aucune intention normative, cet article ébauche des possibilités de réforme.

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Africa’s Destiny and Higher Education Transformation

Nawangwe

2021

The Promise of Higher Education

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Africa, the cradle of mankind and civilization, presents the best example of a people falling from the most culturally and technologically advanced society to the most backward and marginalized. While other ancient civilizations like China, Babylon, and India either transformed and survived or persisted in the case of China, the Egyptian civilization was destroyed and was never to recover. The University of Sankore at Timbuktu, established in the 13th century and recognized by many scholars as one of the oldest universities on earth, is testimony to the advancement in scholarship that Africa had attained before any other civilization. But that is all history. Instead, Africa remains the most marginalized continent, viewed by many as a hopeless sleeping giant without any hope for awakening and moving forward as part of a modern global society.

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Makerere University as a Flagship Institution: Sustaining the Quest for Relevance

Cited by 22 publications

References 7 publications

Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space

Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space

Shared Governance in Public Universities in Uganda: Current Concerns and Directions for Reform

Africa’s Destiny and Higher Education Transformation

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