Assoc. Prof. Proscovia N. Ssentamu
Head, Quality Assurance
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Assoc. Prof. Proscovia Namubiru Ssentamu
- Corporate Directorate
- Department of Quality Assurance
- psnamubiru@umi.ac.ug
- +256 312721207
- PhD. in Education, Bayreuth University (Germany)
Proscovia Namubiru-Ssentamu is an Assoc. Professor of Education and head of the Quality Assurance Department at Uganda Management Institute. With an academic and professional experience spanning over 20 years, Proscovia is a scholar, educator, researcher and consultant who has supported several public and private universities and organisations within and beyond Uganda in the areas of Curriculum, Teacher Education and Development, Quality Assurance, and Teaching and Learning. She has published in several internationally-referred journals: co-authored several book chapters, and is currently the lead Editor of the forthcoming Curriculum, Teaching and Learning in African Higher Education Book, a Continental Education Strategy for Africa 2016-25 Higher Education Book Series under the African Union’s blueprint compass, Agenda 2063.
Proscovia has participated on various consultancies supported by the World Bank, Belgian Technical Cooperation, NUFFIC, UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID, Baylor Foundation, CDC, MasterCard Foundation, German Technical Cooperation, Compassion International and World Vision. She serves on several Boards and Committees including being a Member of the Uganda National Institute for Teacher Education Taskforce; a Member of the Taskforce developing Uganda National Qualifications Framework; a Director of the Julius Nyerere Leadership Center at Makerere University, co-chair of the Uganda National Bureau of Standards Technical Committee of the Education and Learning Services Standards, and chair of the DIGI-FACE Quality Assurance Body comprising 23 Germany Academic Exchange Services (DAAD)-funded African higher education Centers of Excellence. She has on behalf of the South African National Research Foundation Rating System participated in peer reviewing applicants in the assessment panel of Education, reviewed research funding proposals on behalf of the Makerere University Presidential Research Innovation Fund (MakRIF), and also reviewed research funding proposals on behalf of the Uganda Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, under the National Research and Innovation Program (NRIP). She has won scholarship awards including Commonwealth Scholarship Partial Award; Mellon/Carnegie Scholarship Award; Catholic Academic Exchange Services (KAAD) Scholarship Award, and the KULIKA Scholarship Award. She is a Charter Member of the Rotary International Club of Akright and a member of Toastmasters International.
- Doctor of Philosophy in Education, Bayreuth University (Germany)
- M.A (Curriculum Studies), University of London (UK)
- M.ED (Curriculum Studies), Makerere University, (Uganda)
- Graduate Certificate in Quality Assurance, LH Martin Institute, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Postgraduate Diploma in Education Technology, University of Cape Town.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, Uganda Management Institute.
- BA/ED (Literature in English, English Language, Education), Makerere University, (Uganda).
- Certificate of Merit in Project Planning and Management, Institute of Adult and Continuing Education, Makerere University, Uganda
- Quality Assurance
- Curriculum Design
- Curriculum Studies
- Quality assurance in Higher Education
- Curriculum Theory and Development
- June 2020 to date: Member of an un-funded Online Community of Practice Project titled: the Open Educational Resources of Indigenous Games in Africa (OERiGA) involving 22 collaborators from 11 African Countries aiming to collect, digitalise, code and develop pedagogical value of Indigenous African Games for educational purposes with Professor Dick Ng’ambi, University of Cape Town as overall coordinator. The project is envisaged to be an invaluable educational resource to support the scholarship of teaching and learning, research and innovation, and community engagement.
- Aug. 2014 to date: Member of the steering group of the ‘East and South African Centre of Excellence for Educational Research Methods and Management’ (CERM-ESA), a joint project among the University of Oldenburg (Germany), Moi University (Kenya), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (South Africa), Uganda Management Institute (Uganda) and the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with the support from the German Federal Foreign Office. The project provides capacity building in postgraduate research supervision, scholarships for higher education studies, and small grants to support the partner institutions’ core mandates.
- The Uganda Higher Education Review; Journal of the National Council for Higher Education, Vol. 9, Issue 1, March 2021, Editors, Birevu Muyinda, P., Namubiru Ssentamu, P, Ferdinand Kaddu- Mukasa, F, Ayine, R., & Omvia Kaggwa, D. ISSN 1813 – 2243
- The Good Education & Africa’s Future: Concepts, issues and options (2019). Editors: Mugo, K. J., Namubiru-Ssentamu, P., & Mukirae Njihia (eds.)., Paulines Publications Africa, Nairobi.
- Namubiru Ssentamu, P., & Mawa, M. (2020). The Genesis of Quality Assurance Systems in Ugandan Higher Education Institutions. Under review by Oxford University Press in forthcoming book: Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa: Retrospect’s and Prospects, Neema, A. P (Ed.).
- Proscovia Namubiru Ssentamu & Florence Bakibinga Sajjabi (2020). ‘Supervisors’ Reflections on Policy and Practice in an African Graduate Setting: Towards a Pedagogy for Supervising Research,’ (Chapter 14) in Atibuni, Dennis Zami (Ed.). Postgraduate research engagement in low resource settings. IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA.
- Namubiru Ssentamu, P. “Transformation of African Education Policies and Approaches – Which type of education is necessary to bring about meaningful change?” (2015). Kuhn, M. ed.) in Development Needs Change-How can change be changed? Published as Conference Proceedings at the Joint Conference in Tamale/Ghana (18th -22nd August, 2015) by Kollen Druck + Verlag, Bonn, Germany.