ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

Quality higher education in Africa: Assessment and enhancement perspectives

part Two|144 pages

Teaching and learning in higher education

chapter 5|16 pages

Teacher preparation by universities and implications to quality education in Uganda

Internal stakeholder perception of pre-service teacher education at Makerere University

chapter 7|17 pages

Open educational resources/practices (OER/P) in the era of a pandemic

Lessons for developing countries

chapter 11|20 pages

Quality assurance for pedagogical enhancement in African higher education

A comparative case study of the Namibian and the South African quality assurance models

chapter 12|16 pages

Higher education massification in the Zimbabwean context

How quality was inevitably compromised

part Three|78 pages

Research and quality in higher education

chapter 13|7 pages

Raising African voices in scholarly publishing

Implications of a university press in scholarship

chapter 14|17 pages

Management of research-related issues in higher education institutions in Africa

A case of Makerere and Nairobi Universities in East Africa

chapter 17|19 pages

Concluding chapter

Assessment and enhancement: Quality perspectives in higher education