QUALITY ASSURANCE: CONDITIONS AFFECTING IMPROVEMENT ON RESEARCH AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.
Abstract
After many decades of trying to improve and expand educational opportunities, many African countries in spite of all the efforts continued to face crises in the area of research and policy development. Among the factors affecting policy developments in Africa are : Inadequate funding, lack of Publication of Research findings for making classroom decisions, Centralization and Decentralization of power, inadequate training and retraining of work force Bureaucracy and Political influence. Re - thinking on professional development, involving teachers more on research works , collaborative enquiries and standard setting in profession across the universities in teaching profession should be part of reformed to bring African countries closer to what is in operation in other developed countries. To help solve these problems, recommendations are made to ensure maintenance of standard across different universities and countries, need for all embracing curriculum to allowed exchange of students from one country to another and the need to carry industries along in the planning and policy implementation so that there will be minimal complains about incompetency among the University graduates when fully engaged in employment.
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