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Regulation-Of-Universities-NCHE.Pdf THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR GENERAL www.oag.go.ug | E-mail: [email protected] ?? A VALUE FOR MONEY AUDIT REPORT ON THE REGULATION OF UNIVERSITIES BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION (NCHE) A REPORT BY THE AUDITOR GENERAL DECEMBER, 2018 THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA A Value For Money Audit Report on the Regulation of Universities by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) A Report by the Auditor General December, 2018 AUDITOR GENERAL’S MESSAGE 24th December 2018 The Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament Parliament of Uganda Kampala. VALUE FOR MONEY AUDIT REPORT ON THE REGULATION OF UNIVERSITIES BY THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF HIGHER EDUCATION (NCHE) In accordance with Article 163(3) of the Constitution, I hereby submit my report on the audit undertaken on the Regulation of Universities by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE). My office intends to carry out a follow-up at an appropriate time regarding actions taken in relation to the recommendations in this report. I would like to thank my staff who undertook this audit and the staff of the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) for the assistance offered to my staff during the period of the audit. John F.S. Muwanga AUDITOR GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES................................................................................................................................................II LIST OF FIGURES..............................................................................................................................................II ABBREVIATIONS...............................................................................................................................................III EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................IV CHAPTER ONE...................................................................................................................................................1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................................2 1.1 Motivation..............................................................................................................................................2 1.2 Description of the Audit Area................................................................................................................2 1.3 Audit Objectives.....................................................................................................................................4 1.4 Audit Objectives.....................................................................................................................................4 1.5 Audit Scope...........................................................................................................................................4 CHAPTER TWO..................................................................................................................................................5 AUDIT METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................................................6 2.1 Sampling...............................................................................................................................................6 2.2 Data Collection......................................................................................................................................6 2.3 Data Analysis........................................................................................................................................6 CHAPTER THREE..............................................................................................................................................7 SYSTEMS AND PROCESS DESCRIPTION...........................................................................................................8 3.1 Roles and Responsibilities of Key Players............................................................................................8 3.2 Process Description..............................................................................................................................9 CHAPTER FOUR...............................................................................................................................................12 FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS...................................................................................13 4.1 Monitoring and institutional audits......................................................................................................14 4.2 Human Capital Assessment.................................................................................................................22 4.3 Minimum standards for courses of study............................................................................................23 APPENDICES...................................................................................................................................................26 Appendix I: Organizational Structure..............................................................................................................26 Appendix II: Data collection methodology........................................................................................................27 Appendix III: Documents reviewed...................................................................................................................28 Appendix IV: Interviews held...........................................................................................................................28 Appendix V: Quality Assurance Framework Indicators....................................................................................29 Appendix VI: University adherence to capacity indicators...............................................................................32 The Regulation of Universities by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) | A Report by the Auditor General I LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Funding................................................................................................................................................4 Table 2: Programmes assessed........................................................................................................................13 Table 3: Licenses and authorisations granted..................................................................................................14 Table 4: Universities with monitoring reports..................................................................................................15 Table 5: Planned, budgeted and actual allocations..........................................................................................15 Table 6: Allocation of students’ fees collections to monitoring activities........................................................16 Table 7: Quality assurance and accreditation department staffing levels.......................................................17 Table 8: Status of University programme accreditation...................................................................................18 Table 9: University with un-reviewed charters.................................................................................................18 Table 10: Universities with more than 3 years of holding provisional licenses...............................................19 Table 11: Analysis of budget and actual expenditure for minimum standards...............................................24 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Comparison of applications and assessments of programmes.......................................................13 Figure 2: Analysis of planned and actual unit cost monitoring activities........................................................16 II The Regulation of Universities by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) | A Report by the Auditor General ABBREVIATIONS DQAA Department of Quality Assurance and Accreditation ED Executive Director GoU Government of Uganda HEO Higher Education Officer NCHE National Council of Higher Education NDP National Development Plan NPA National Planning Authority NTR Non Tax Revenue SDG Sustainable Development Goal UBOS Uganda Bureau of statistics UGX Uganda Shillings UOTIA Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act The Regulation of Universities by the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) | A Report by the Auditor General III EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) was established as the regulator of higher education to implement the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act of Parliament (UOTIA, 2001 as amended). By the provisions of the Act, NCHE is mandated to guide the establishment of institutions of higher learning as well as ensure delivery of quality and relevant education to all qualified persons. NCHE has strived to achieve its mandate to ensure that sustainable quality higher education is provided at all Higher Educational Institutions in Uganda. However, there are chronic problems of staffing and inadequate research in universities1 that impede the achievement of quality education. This is coupled with the increase in number of universities. To date, the country has 9 public and 43 private universities. The overall objective of the study was to assess the extent to which NCHE has ensured that
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