On Thursday 22 October, 2020 the East African School of Higher Studies and Development Ms. Kulthum Nabunya defended her Ph.D
The title of her thesis is:” Professional Development Practices and Service Delivery of Academic Staff in Kampala International and Kyambogo Universities in Uganda”.
She was supervised by;
Hilary M. Tusiime (PhD) and Robert Kyaligonza (PhD)
This study sought to establish the relationship between Professional Development Practices (PDPs) and Service Delivery of Academic Staff (SDAS) in Kampala International University (KIU) and Kyambogo University (KyU).
The study was specifically intended to establish the relationship between professional development practices and teaching, research and community service delivery of academic staff in the aforementioned universities. Guided by the Cross- sectional and correlational research designs, data were collected from 12 administrative staff and 466 academic staff using interviews and questionnaires. The findings showed that professional development practices were all significantly related to teaching, research and community service delivery of academic staff in KyU; while it was (professional development practices) only significantly related to community service delivery in KIU. In respect to KIU, the study revealed that professional development practices were not significantly related to teaching and research service delivery. It was concluded that the relationship between professional development practices and service delivery of academic staff differed in the two universities studied. It was recommended that the two different universities needed different strategies to enhance the quality of service delivery of academic staff. Hence, it was specifically recommended that KyU should augment her professional development practices to boost service delivery of academic staff in the areas of teaching, research and community service. For the case of KIU, it was recommended that the aforestated university should concentrate her professional development efforts on community service delivery rather than focusing them on enhancing teaching and research. service delivery across universities in Uganda.
