Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space
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Date
2020
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Higher Learning Research Communications
Abstract
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
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Quality assurance, governance, higher education
Citation
Nabaho, L., Turyasingura, W., Kiiza, A. K., Andama, F., & Beinebyabo, A. (2020). Quality Assurance of Higher Education Governance and Management: An Exploration of the Minimum Imperative for the Envisioned African Common Higher Education Space. Higher Learning Research Communications, 10(2), 38-52.