An Assessment of the Current Status of Quality of Education in Private Higher Education Institutions: The Case of Mekelle
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Th e purpose ojlhis sludy was 10 underJland and assess Ih e currenl slaWs oj qualily oj
educclliun fakin g inlo accounl qualily indicalors in PHEls in M ekelle. To conducl Ihis
research , descriplive survey melhod was e mployed. The primary sources oj dala were 65
inslrue/ ors, 145 second and Ihird year undergraduale degree r egular program sludenls
and jour academic vice deans. Purpo sive sampling, simple random sampling and
slralified random sampling lec hniques were employed 10 select academic vice deans,
inslruclor s and sludenls respeclively. Likewise, Ih e collecled dala were a nalyzed
quanlilali ve ly by us ing descriplive and injerenlial slalislics, and qualitalively by using
descriplive narralion. · Queslionnaires were Ihe 'main dafa gathering instruments while
inl ervi ew, observalion and do cum enl analysis were employed 10 enrich the data gathered
Ihr ough queslionnaires. The jinding oj Ih e sludy mirrors thaI th e educalional
qualificalion oj ins/ruClors was below Ihe required minimum slandard 10 give instruction
al degree level. The academic staffs were less qualified to conducl the teaching -
learning process effectively b ec ause abolll half oj them were not acquainted with the
conceplo/pedagogy, had low educational qualification and less teaching experience and
lacked on Ih e job Iraining oPPo rlun il ies. Besides, th e services provided by Ihe support
slOfj.i· were nm suj)7cienl e ven/hough Ihe background ojlheir s tudenls was weak. The
pill'sicallocalion o/ PI-JEls are nO I co nven ienljor ej{eCl ive inslruclional underlaking du e
10 Ih e /loises u./neighboring mus ic shops, hO lels. bars and sound oj vehi cles. Educa tional
jilcililies al1d il1ji"asll"llclurc s were nOI complele enough to materialize ejlecli ve leaching Icoming
process. Moreaver. Ihe leaders and managers were nOI projicient in crealing
posilire working environm enl and Ih ey were also less qualified in mobilizing resources 10
jii/jill edllcalionaljacililies, in building decision - making capacity jor teachers and
sluden ls. Besides. the c urricu la r mCll erials were not sujjicien/ excepl the course g uides
and teachers' hand ouls 10 give quality inslruclion at degree level. Moreover, t he re was
an imp lementCllion boltleneck with respect to mel h ods oj teac hing and assessment. Thus ,
lecture method and summative e valuation w er e the most frequently utilized methods oj
teaching and assessm ent respectively. Graduate tracer studies were not succesJjully
carried out by most sa mpled PHEls. From Ihe survey, the pass rale oj graduales oj
PI-JEl s was g realer Ihan the rale oj employmenl. As a r esult, th e currenl status oj qllalily
0.( educati on in PHEIs in Mekelle was jound 10 be not promising when it was evalualed
Fom Ih e point of input indicators, pro cess indicators and out put indicators as
benchmarks oj quality oj edu calion. Finally, necessary recommendalions were give n jor
improving Ihe c urren t status oj quality oj educ ation by indicaling what to be stressed fo r
conductingjurlh er s tudies.
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Current Status of Quality of Education