Major Factors Affecting Quality Education: A Comparative Study of the College of Business and Economics and the Faculty of The Social Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the Major Factors Affecting the Quality of Education in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the College of Business and Economics to achieve the objectives stated in chapter one. The efforts of the study are directed towards assessing major ingredients that hinder the achievement of standard education and then suggest relevant solutions thereby. To this end, both a qualitative and a quantitative research approaches were employed. Students, teachers and coordinators were types of respondents for whom questionnaires are distributed and interviews made. Availability, simple random and stratified random samples were used as sampling techniques. The data collected from both primary and secondary sources were then analyzed and interpreted using tables and statistical tools such as means and percentages. It has been investigated that both the College of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Social Sciences were found to be at moderate level in most of the dimensions of quality education. Certain barriers exist that challenge the efforts towards excelling to a higher level of education. Finally, remedies are suggested for the problems faced by the college and the faculty understudy. These include promoting education researches, applying current technologies in the process of education, setting effective communication networks among the college/faculty members as well as offering short term trainings for staff members on how to adopt effective teaching.

Keywords: FACTORS, EDUCATION, QUALITY