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Total Quality Management (TQM) is a philosophy for continuously improving services and/or products. Organisations which have adopted TQM have gained many benefits in terms of profits, employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Despite such benefits, research data has revealed that more than 2/3 of organisations which adopted TQM ended up failing implement it. Therefore many researchers have suggested conducting organisational readiness assessment prior the implementation phase....
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Large scale tracking policies, allowing academically apt pupils to enter a select group of secondary schools, can be found in many Sub-Saharan countries. However, evidence on the impact of these policies on school outcomes, especially school participation, is limited. This paper fills this gap by providing regression discontinuity evidence on the impact of Malawi’s tracking program. The analysis is based on unique institutional data covering an entire cohort of pupils. Estimates show that...
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This paper aims to investigate the information sources used by South African students when selecting a Higher Education Institution and further to establish whether statistical significant differences occur between the perceptions of high and medium performing students from two Universities of Technologies. This paper provides an explanation of students’ decision making process and the utilisation of sources of information when selecting a Higher Education Institution. Three hundred and...
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This paper aims to investigate the information sources used by South African students when selecting a Higher Education Institution and further to establish whether statistical significant differences occur between the perceptions of high and medium performing students from two Universities of Technologies. This paper provides an explanation of students’ decision making process and the utilisation of sources of information when selecting a Higher Education Institution. Three hundred and...
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To reap economic benefits of research and innovation, science and engineering graduates need to be equipped with entrepreneurial skills to enable them to engage in technology based business ventures. Entrepreneurial skills will also mitigate unemployment and poverty by empowering scientists and engineers with self employment capabilities, and shall help create job opportunities for the others. Universities have a potential role to play in producing such technically trained manpower. Two...
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The purpose of this study was to examine structural, academic, and personal factors affecting the transition of African American males to high school by giving voice to the participants. A qualitative dominant explanatory mixed methods design (Creswell, 2005) was used to collect data. In the qualitative phase, a questionnaire was administered to 16 African American male students who had completed the first semester of their freshman year. For the qualitative phase of the study, eight of the...
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Equity and inclusion in education are increasingly being acknowledged as critical issues for national development. This is reflected in conventions and commitments taken by various governments and impacts on the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals as well as the UNESCO Education for All Goal. This paper attempts to define equity and inclusion in education and discusses its importance for national development. The purpose of education and inclusion in education systems is...
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ince the 1990s,higher education in Uganda has been confronted with the quality challenges in the process of rapid expansion.Stepping into the 21st century,Uganda has formulated quality assurance policies and created integrated quality assurance frameworks in both national and institutional level to meet the needs of society and the variation in the globalization era.In the meantime,Uganda takes the Inter-University Council for East Africa as the platform of regional cooperation so as to...
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Current knowledge of the situation of anaesthesia in developing countries is limited. A survey of the status of education and research based on hospital records, records of the anaesthesia section, nursing records, personal observations as well as personal communication with staff, patients and hospital managers was carried out in a 1863-bed university teaching hospital located in the capital of a least developed Sub-Saharan African Country.Classification and evaluation of the data was based...
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Today, many African nations and international communities have committed themselves to eliminating gender and education disparities by the year „2005‟. I ask my self-how are rural African women included in these policies of education for all and how their educational needs are being met by their governments. The continent of Africa in no doubt faces many challenges that range from educating its population, to economic development. However, due to many western „so called‟ developmental...