Online Application System for Admission in Private Universities

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-86
Author(s):  
Mbowa Henry Stanley ◽  
Kaaya Siraje Matovu
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
University Education ◽  
Education For All ◽  
Application System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Online Application ◽  
Application Systems ◽  
Large Numbers

The policy of education for all has increased students' numbers in both public and private universities. Applicants seeking admission in universities have increased, and many universities have come up to tap the large numbers. Efforts have been made to give access to applicants for university education. However, applicants still find problems for applying due to absence of online application systems. This implies that universities have to adopt online application systems to enhance their admissions to graduate programs. The purpose of the chapter is to present a developed online application system for supporting admission at Kampala University (KU). This chapter also presents the weaknesses of the existing application system at KU to applicants and developed an online application system designed using HTML, PHP, CSS, Zend Engine, MySQL, SQL, and JS. Thus, KU should implement the online application system and provide clear guidelines to applicants on how to use the system.

The tension of elite vs . massified higher education systems: how prospective students perceive public and private universities in Kenya

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moses Oketch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
University Education ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Random Samples ◽  
Acceptable Quality

This article examines how recent changes, leading to a diversified supply in Kenya's university education system, is reflected in prospective students' aspirations, perceptions and preferences to undertake university education. The results, based on a combination of a convenience and snowball sampling of settings, within which random samples of final year high school students were selected, reveal that aspiration to undertake university education is high among all social groups, and that state universities are preferred by a majority of the students in spite of the rapid growth in the number of private universities of acceptable quality. By examining the aspirations of students and college choice, the paper engages the debates around elite vs . massified higher education in Kenya's context.

scholarly journals Online Learning during Corona Virus 2019: Empirical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tariq Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
University Education ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Corona Virus

Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) was declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on mid of March 2020. Globally, most governments - including Pakistan - approved extraordinary social control measures to stem the tide of this pandemic disease. These actions required social segregation and a temporary suspension of education. As with all other institutions of higher education, public and private universities will also be required to offer distance learning to students by the end of the academic year 2020–2021. Universities of private and public sector, at all levels of higher education, suspended physical classes and implemented online teaching for university students. And, this spontaneous, quick, and uncertain nature of the teaching created difficulties for students. Data on accepted procedures for directing such sudden transitions to university education were scarce, and there was no consensus on the best way to proceed. Students at public and private universities have been impacted by a shift to distance education. Studying students' academic difficulties and the unexpected benefits of distance education, and then using that information to develop strategies that could be used in emergency situations in university education, was the goal of the study.   Received: 3 August 2021 / Accepted: 7 October 2021 / Published: 5 November 2021

ROLE OF INSTITUTIONAL MANAGERS IN QUALITY ASSURANCE: REFLECTIONS ON KENYA’S UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 113-124
Author(s):  
Gudo Calleb Owino ◽  
Oanda Ibrahim Ogachi ◽  
Olel Maureen A
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
The Public ◽  
Significant Step

Universities are accountable to the stakeholders. To justify their continued existence, the managers of these universities need to guarantee the public that the institutions they lead offer quality teaching, research and community service. The study investigated how effectively university managers have played their role in quality assurance. The results indicated that private universities performed better than public universities in management of quality education. However, public and private universities suffered from interference by political and religious patronage. The other barrier to provision of effective management for quality assurance among Kenyan public and private universities was found to be negative ethnicity and nepotism. Kenyan public universities suffered from insufficient teaching and learning resources and a leadership that did not satisfactorily engage its stakeholders in decision making. It was recommended that managers of the universities should deliberately take short term leadership courses to boost their managerial skills as a significant step towards delivery of quality education. The skills acquired should be sufficient to respond to the challenges of quality education bedeviling the universities.

The Troubled Soul of the Academy: American Learning and the Problem of Religious Studies

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-77
Author(s):  
D. G. Hart
Keyword(s):  
American Academy ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
Ford Foundation ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Universities And Colleges

The decade of the 1960's was important for American scholars who studied religion. Prospects for employment brightened considerably as public and private universities and Colleges created undergraduate and graduate programs in religious studies. Becoming more self-conscious about their academic identity, professors who staffed these programs founded the American Academy of Religion in 1964, an organization designed to promote scholarship and publication in religion. One index to the growing prominence of religious studies was the survey of humanistic scholarship commissioned by Princeton University's Council on the Humanities and funded by the Ford Foundation. Of the thirteen volumes in this series, two were devoted to the field of religion: Clyde A. Holbrook's Religion, A Humanistic Field (1963), and Religion (1965), a summary of the various fields in religious studies, edited by Paul Ramsey.

scholarly journals Online Learning During Corona Virus 2019: Empirical Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Tariq Bhatti ◽  
Roshan Teevno ◽  
Syed Gulzar Ali Shah Bukhari
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
University Education ◽  
World Health ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Corona Virus

Abstract Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) was declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on mid of March 2020. Globally, most governments - including Pakistan - approved extraordinary social control measures to stem the tide of this pandemic disease. These actions required social segregation and a temporary suspension of education. As with all other institutions of higher education, public and private universities will also be required to offer distance learning to students by the end of the academic year 2020–2021. Universities suspended physical classes and implemented online teaching for university students. And, this spontaneous, quick, and uncertain nature of the teaching created difficulties for students. Data on accepted procedures for directing such sudden transitions to university education were scarce, and there was no consensus on the best way to proceed. Students at public and private universities have been impacted by a shift to distance education. Studying students' academic difficulties and the unexpected benefits of distance education, and then using that information to develop strategies that could be used in emergency situations in university education, was the goal of the study.

scholarly journals A Comparative Study on Efficiency Assessment between Public and Private Universities: Evidence from Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1801-1814 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUSTIN IGNAS BANGI
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
University Education ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Tobit Regression ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Government ◽  
Assurance Process

Our study builds on a two- stage Data Envelopment Analysis to examine and compare the efficiency of public and private universities in Tanzania in 2008-2012. First, we use data envelopment analysis to measure the technical and scale efficiency of universities. Secondly, we examine factors that influence efficiency through Tobit regression model for both public and private Universities. The findings from the model affirm that the efficiency of the two University categories varies significantly. However, public University average efficiency is observed to be higher than that of private Universities. Whereas public Universities are inefficient in research and publications, private universities efficiency is determined by enrolment, academics staff and consultancy services. Given the contemporary significance of University education to social and individual development, we plead to the government University agency (TCU) to review the entire quality assurance process to improve Universities efficiency.

scholarly journals EXPERIENCES OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN VIRTUALITY IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CONTEXT IN COLOMBIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Campo Elías Flórez Pabón ◽  
Jenny Patricia Acevedo-Rincón
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
University Education ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Public ◽  
The North ◽  
Digital Gap ◽  
The University

Colombian basic, middle and higher education is governed by the Colombian Ministry of National Education (MEN). Higher Education Institutions are entities that have official recognition to be providers of the public service of higher education in the Colombian territory, whose legal nature is characterized by being of a public or private character. The former have general guardianship control as a public establishment and the latter enjoy constitutional and legal prerogatives that, even from the same jurisprudence, have had significant development in terms of scope, to the point of pointing out that these are organizations that belong to none of the branches of public power or private universities (2020). The current health crisis reveals the digital gap that was immersed in the Colombian educational system. According to the Ministry of Science and Technology -MINTIC, the digital gap is recognized as the socioeconomic difference between those communities that have access to ICTs and those that do not, in addition to the differences between groups according to their ability to use ICTs effectively, due to the different levels of literacy and technological capacity (MINTIC, 2019). Furthermore, this context implies that the digital gap is not closed in Colombia, as evidenced by the report on the digital gap monitoring project presented by MINTIC, but that until now the data on the digital divide is being configured to take action, idea that would be developed in this annuity. Despite this reality, the decision made worldwide was to continue with online classes regardless of the socioeconomic reality of the inhabitants in any region, and Colombia was no exception. Next, two experiences are described, developed in Colombian public and private universities, which are constituted in virtual training actions that incorporate methodological innovations in the development of classrooms in the human and exact sciences. From this reality, the experiences of the University of Pamplona and the University of the North in public and private virtuality are presented, respectively.

scholarly journals Influence of Market Focus Planning Strategies on Competitiveness of Private Universities in Nairobi County, Kenya

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-105
Author(s):  
NENE NDERITU ◽  
Dr. Mary Mugwe Chui ◽  
Dr. Paul Edabu
Keyword(s):  
Private Universities ◽  
Target Population ◽  
University Education ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Student Enrolment ◽  
Planning Strategies ◽  
Market Focus ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Narrative Forms

In the last three decades, the republic of Kenya has witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of chartered universities and a stiff competition for students. The student enrolment base coupled with the emergence of private university education providers turned the university arena in Kenya into a student enrolment market, leading to intense competition between Public and Private Universities. The researcher realizes that, the existing studies relate competitiveness with performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to assess the influence of market focus planning strategies on competitiveness of private universities in Nairobi County, Kenya. Resource Based Theory, Competitive Advantage Theory and Generic Framework Theory guided this study. The study applied mixed method approach and thus adopted concurrent triangulation design. Target population comprised 66 Registrar Academics, 66 Registrar Admissions and 33 Directors of Marketing all totalling to 165. Using the Central Limit Theorem, 36 Registrars of Academics, 36 Registrars of Admissions and 18 Directors of Marketing were purposively sampled. Questionnaires were used to collect data from Registrar Academic and Admissions whereas interview guide was used to gather data from Directors of Marketing. Data analysis began by identifying common themes from the respondents’ description of their experiences. Qualitative data were analyzed thematically along the objectives and were presented in narrative forms. Quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferentially using Chi-Square through Statistical Packages for Social Science and presented using tables. The study established that many private universities have not fully adopted market focus planning strategies to enhance their competitiveness. The study recommends that private universities design and market their academic programmes affordable to students from all socio-economic backgrounds.

Ethical climate and deviant behavior among employees of selected public and private universities: The case of the emerging country

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Oluwafunmilayo Obalade ◽  
Kayode Kingsley Arogundade
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
State University ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Simple Regression

The study was borne out of the need to assess the effect of ethical climate on deviant behavior among employees in the educational institutions and the need to ascertain whether workplace deviant behavior has a force to bear with institutional ownership. Questionnaires (375) were distributed among the academic and administrative staff of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) and Elizade University, Ilara-Mokin (EU); selected using multistage sampling technique. Descriptive statistics (table, percentage) and inferential statistics (simple regression) were employed to analyse the data. Simple regression was used to analyse the data. Based on the test of the hypothesis, the study found that deviant behavior among employees of selected public and private universities can be significantly determined by ethical climate factors. Ethical climate contributed significantly to deviant behaviors in the public and private universities showing probability of t-statistic (.012 &.022) lesser than 5%. Hence, it is concluded that the ethical climate or wrong ethical system is the major determinant of deviant behaviors in selected public and private universities.

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