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    Effect of Teachers’ ICT Pre-requisite Skills on Adoption and Use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya
    (American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR), 2019) Oduor, Hellen Nekesa; Boit, John; Ayiro, Laban Peter
    The government of Kenya funded five secondary schools in every constituency in 2010/2011 financial year under ICT Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP).The move was geared towards catalyzing the adoption and use of ICT in secondary schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of teachers’ ICT prerequisite skills on adoption and use of information communication technology (ICT) in public secondary schools in the republic of Kenya. The objective was to assess the effect of teachers’ ICT pre-requisite skills on adoption and use of ICT. The study adopted a mixed methods research design, it was informed by the pragmatic philosophical paradigm and guided by diffusion of innovation (DOI) theory. The target population was 30,080 teachers from public secondary schools funded by the government of Kenya under ICT Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP). Participating regions, counties and schools were selected using simple random sampling design to obtain 384 teachers. ICT pre-requisite skills, was the independent variables while adoption and use of ICT in public secondary schools was the dependent variable. Data was collected by closed ended questionnaires and interview schedules. It was cleaned and presented using the mean, mode and range descriptive statistics. The hypothesis was tested via Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. The study established a statistically significant relationship between teachers’ pre-requisite ICT skills and adoption and use of ICT of + 0.154. The study recommended a follow up/monitoring and evaluation of adoption and use of ICT on termly basis until it picks the momentum, a review of the teacher education curriculum to reflect more courses in ICT, emphasis on in-service training in ICT. Finding and recommendation of this study will be of use to education stakeholders; policy makers, teachers, students and the government as they strives to attain vision 2030.
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    Quality Assurance Challenges in the Award of PhDs in Kenya: The award of the PhD degree by Kenyan Universities: A quality Assurance Perspective
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010-09-10) Ayiro, Laban Peter; Sang, James K.
    The rapid expansion of higher education in Kenya and globally, entrance of market forces in higher education delivery (online, open and distance modes), and globalization of education (private entrepreneurs and diploma mills) necessitates the formation of structures and mechanisms, standards and guidelines, to assure quality.Five definitions of quality exist; the highest possible standard of academic achievement; fitness for purpose;effectiveness in achieving institutional goals;conformity to a specification or standard and meeting the stated or implied needs of customers. The findings reveal that there exisists quality challenges in the institutional processes established for the award of the PhDs across Kenyan the universities. These in turn impact negatively on the type of PhDs that are produced in the country and consequently the type of human resource generated for the economic well-being of the country.It is hoped that the findings will stir debate and urge the universities to re-evaluate and re-vamp their quality control systems for the award of not only the PhDs but all their other degrees and diplomas.