REIMAGING PUBLIC-PRIVATE NEXUS IN ACCELERATING WOMEN’S PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION

نویسندگان

  • Emily A. Odhong PhD, CHRP(K), Senior Lecturer/Registrar Academics, Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology, Kenya
  • Nicholas O. Otado PhD, Lecturer, Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology, Kenya
  • Judith A. Ochieng CHRP(K), Tutorial Fellow, Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology, Kenya
  • Cynthia A. Odhong Postgraduate Student, Master in Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v11i11.5705

کلمات کلیدی:

public-private nexus, women, progressive education, quadripartite-partnership, collaboration, nexus

چکیده

Despite significant progress in recent years, gender disparities in education persist! The main objective of the study is to establish the role of public-private nexus in accelerating women’s progressive education. The significance of the study is to expand access to progressive and quality education for women, inform policies, enhance capacity to upscale women’s holistic learning and, most importantly, alleviate Kenya’s weak nexus between women empowerment policies and quality education. The study also seeks to promote resilience and innovativeness among higher education institutions so as to emerge stronger and holistically support women's empowerment and girls' education. The study adopted John Dewin’s theory of education and Social Capital Theory as the study underpinning theory to support the variables. The study adopted a mixed-method research design strengthened with pragmatism and constructivism as the appropriate research paradigm. The study focused on students as the key unit of observation. The lecturers’ views were sought since the researcher adopted a learner-centered approach using cross-sectional data. In addition, secondary data and key informant interviews were used to get facts from government published data, industry-based reports and community-based organisations. Questionnaires were used to collect primary data from the study respondents. The study sample size comprised 129 students. The study also targeted 60 lecturers who were teaching during the same period. The study adopted stratified sampling techniques. The study findings revealed that 29(67.44%) of the respondents stated that public-private partnerships provide access and avenues for women’s progressive education. The overall regression results revealed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the public-private nexus and women’s progressive education with a regression coefficient of 0.164, a t-value of 1.62, and a p-value of 0.1000. The result implies that the coefficient of the public-private nexus is statistically significant at a 10 per cent level of significance. The magnitude of the coefficient of public-private nexus is 0.164. This implies that ceteris paribus, one percent increase in the score of public-private nexus leads to a 16% change in women’s progressive education. The study also found a 16% projection rate of student enrollment annually with enhanced public-private nexus. The study concludes that synergistic-quadripartite partnership enhanced and collaboration plays a vital role in accelerating women’s progressive education. The study recommends strengthening synergistic-quadripartite partnerships with industry partners to enhance the public-private nexus and women’s progressive education while integrating gender perspectives in curriculum development. To enhance sustainable partnerships, institutions should forge a framework for a memorandum of understanding with industry players and agree on partnership and collaborative opportunities. Higher learning institutions should leverage innovation through transformative pedagogical approaches and fostering institutional-industry collaboration to address skills mismatch in the labour market.

 

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  • Emily A. Odhong، PhD, CHRP(K), Senior Lecturer/Registrar Academics, Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology, Kenya

    Dr. Emily Odhong is the Registrar of Academics and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Management at Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology (KWUST), with over six years of experience in teaching and research in the Institutions of Higher Learning. In addition, she previously served as the Director of Quality Assurance. Dr Emily Odhong holds a PhD in Human Resource Management and Master of Science in Human Resource Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Dr Emily is a Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP-K), an active Practicing Member of the Institute of Human Resource Management, an active member of Kenya Universities Quality Assurance Network (KuQAn) and a member of the Research Board of KuQAn. She is also a Fellow member of Women in Global Leadership Development (WILD Network). Her research interests are: human capital management and its components, women’s education and empowerment, employee engagement, labour relations and decent work, among other areas. Her publications are available in:

    Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zc0EerYAAAAJ&hl=en  

    ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-1469

  • Nicholas O. Otado، PhD, Lecturer, Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology, Kenya

    Dr. Nicholas Ohuru Otado is a Lecturer at Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology. He holds a PhD in Human Resource Management and a Master of Science in Human Resource Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nairobi. Dr. Otado is a full member of the Institute of Human Resource Management and the Kenya Institute of Management.  His research areas are: human resource management and related areas.  His research papers are available on Academia.edu.

  • Judith A. Ochieng، CHRP(K), Tutorial Fellow, Kiriri Women’s University of Science and Technology, Kenya

    Judith Anyango Ochieng is a Tutorial Fellow at Kiriri Women’s University, holding an MBA in Human Resource Management and currently pursuing a PhD in Business Administration with a specialization in HR at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. A certified HR practitioner. Her research interests focus on Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Employee Skills Development. She has presented at KWUST Multidisciplinary Conferences and DAEA Workshops and actively contributes to academic networks like ORCID (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-7384?lang=en)

  • Cynthia A. Odhong، Postgraduate Student, Master in Cooperation and Development, University of Pavia, Italy

    Cynthia Achieng Odhong is a Masters Student at the University of Pavia, Italy. She is pursuing a Master's in Cooperation and Development. She has completed her coursework. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Gender and Development Studies from Kenyatta University, Kenya, and a Certificate in German Language and Literature. She is currently doing an internship and working as a community volunteer at CVM Tanzania. She has worked as a Project Communication Officer at World Friends, Onlus, Kenya. Her awards are: 2024 Erasmus Scholarship Awardee; Women in Leadership Development Fellow, 2023 Cohort and Youth Ambassador ICTforAg 2022. Her research interests are: gender and development, international cooperation, and women and girls empowerment.

    ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/380898449.

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2024-12-09

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دوره 11 شماره 11 (2024)

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