Enhancing Completion Rates through Structural and Operational Changes in the Management of Postgraduate Programmes in Kenya’s Public Universities
- During the National Multiplication Training in Kenya in 2018, participants raised concerns about attrition, completion rates and quality of PhD programmes in Kenya’s public universities. This led the authors of this article to further examine the question of PhD completion rates. Available data underlined that PhD students across various disciplines in Kenya’s public universities take unnecessarily long to complete their studies due to a myriad of factors that are related to their supervisors, university guidelines for post-graduate studies, or the students themselves. This article examines inertia areas along the PhD training pathway at three public universities in Kenya and provides suggestions on structural and operational changes universities must make to shorten completion periods.
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| Author details: | Fuchaka WaswaORCiD, Elizabeth AbengaORCiD, Florence Indede |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-493468 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-49346 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-86956-496-8 |
| ISSN: | 2192-1075 |
| ISSN: | 2192-1083 |
| Title of parent work (German): | Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung |
| Publisher: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Place of publishing: | Potsdam |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/11/25 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Publishing institution: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2021/02/09 |
| Tag: | completion rates; doctoral studies; public universities in Kenya; structural and operational changes |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Number of pages: | 17 |
| First page: | 85 |
| Last Page: | 101 |
| Source: | Multipliers of Change : Sustainable Capacity Building in Higher Education Leadership and Management / Frank Niedermeier, Xia Qin (Eds.). - Potsdam : Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2020. - ISBN 978-3-86956-496-8 (Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung ; 5). pp. 85-101 |
| RVK - Regensburg classification: | AL 33000, AL 50000, AL 17300 |
| Organizational units: | Extern / Extern |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Universitätsverlag Potsdam |
| Open Access / Gold Open-Access | |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / Potsdamer Beiträge zur Hochschulforschung, ISSN 2192-1083 / PBHSF (2020) 05 |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
