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Interrogating the agency and education of refugee children with disabilities in Northern Uganda: A critical capability approach
(National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2023-10-17)This paper draws on empirical evidence from a 3-year research project in Northern Uganda examining the educational experiences of refugees with disabilities. The authors present the compounded and interrelated challenges ... -
Towards a transformative lifelong learning agenda for non-traditional students at university
(Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023-09-16)Liberalisation of higher education in Uganda meant opening its provision to the private sector, and also running a public-private mix model at public institutions. Consequently, the composition and needs of the student ... -
Revisiting VET research paradigms: Critical perspectives from the South
(Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 2023-11-16)This paper reflects on a large multisite funded VET research project conducted by a large and diverse research team. Reflecting on two of our case studies, from Uganda and South Africa, we consider both the need for ... -
The Relationship between Entry Grades of Students Admitted to Public Universities in Uganda under Direct Entry Schemes and Their Academic Performance: Implications for Admission Policies
(East African Journal of Education Studies, 2023-04-21)Although studies on relationships between entry qualification and academic performance show that students who excelled academically in entry qualification often perform better than those with low entry qualification ... -
The Role of the University as Mediator in a Skills Ecosystem Approach to VET
(2023-01-06)Introduction In this chapter, we focus particularly on the mediating role of the university, in close connection with vocational institutions and informal community actors, in developing an inclusive approach to vocational ... -
Engaging in a Movement of Cognitive Justice at the Gulu University K4C Hub, Uganda
(Africa Education Review, 2023)The Gulu hub is an initiative of the Gulu University under the Knowledge for Change (K4C) initiative of the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. The hub’s work is linked ... -
Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa: A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective VET Africa 4.0 Collective.
(Bristol University Press, 2021)Editor's Preface This is the first volume for the Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education (building upon the former Bristol Papers series) and one that clearly demonstrates our commitment to ‘critically ... -
Motivations for participation in higher education
(International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016-03-28)The objective of this qualitative study was to establish motivations for participation of non-traditional students (NTS) in university education. The findings are drawn from empirical data collected from 15 unstructured ... -
An examination of the difference between the contents of the FAL literacy curriculum/primers used in Uganda and everyday literacy practices in rural community life.
(Journal of Research and Practice in Adult Literacy, 2007)Adult literacy learning programmes in Uganda and, I believe, in most African countries, are largely driven by national and community development concerns (see Carr-Hill et al., 2001; Fiedrich & Jellema, 2003; Wagner, ... -
Entry Grades and the Academic Performance of University Students
(The Asian Institute of Research, 2021)Universities world over mostly base their decisions to admit their new students on the applicant’s pre-university academic results. However, there is yet no concrete evidence that the students’ pre-university academic ... -
Entry Grades and the Academic Performance of University Students
(The Asian Institute of Research, 2021)Universities world over mostly base their decisions to admit their new students on the applicant’s pre-university academic results. However, there is yet no concrete evidence that the students’ pre-university academic ... -
Motivations for participation in higher education
(International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2016)ABSTRACT The objective of this qualitative study was to establish motivations for participation of non-traditional students (NTS) in university education. The findings are drawn from empirical data collected from 15 ... -
Christianity and rural community literacy practices in Uganda
(Blackwell Publishing,, 2007)In this article, we examine how Christianity provides the impetus for local literacy practices in a rural community in Uganda. These Christian literacy practices form a central part of the literacy activities of the ... -
The influence of out-of-institution environments on the university schooling project of non-traditional students in Uganda
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-14)Participation and integration of non-traditional students (NTS) in university education is influenced by factors within the institution and those external to the institution, including participants’ self-perceptions and ... -
The influence of out-of-institution environments on the university schooling project of nontraditional students in Uganda
(Routledge- Taylor &Francis, 2018)Participation and integration of non-traditional students (NTS) in university education is influenced by factors within the institution and those external to the institution, including participants’ self-perceptions and ... -
The Role of Religion in Written Language Maintenance and Shift in Uganda
(Multilingual Matters 2019, 2019)The primary focus of this chapter is the ambivalent role of religion in language maintenance and shift in Uganda. This chapter draws its theo-retical framework from the work of Pauwels (2005) on language mainte-nance and ... -
When the guns stopped roaring: Acholi ngec ma gwoko lobo
(UTS ePRESS, 2020-05-11)This article calls attention to the responsibility of universities to transform, through partnership, the community in which they are embedded. The authors suggest that, to find solutions to the various community ... -
Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review
(Informa-Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-05)The SDGs mark the clearest global acceptance yet that the previous approach to development was unsustainable. In VET, UNESCO has responded by developing a clear account of how a transformed VET must be part of a ...