UNI VERSI TY OF DAR ES SALAAM United Republic of Tanzania HERANA 3 SEMI NAR – 2 2 ND NOVEMBER 2 0 1 6 I NSTI TUTI ONAL I MPLI CATI ONS OF HERANA DATA DR. PANCRAS BUJULU– DI RECTOR OF PLANNI NG & DEVELOPMENT DR. PENDO MALANGW A – DI RECTOR OF QUALI TY ASSURANCE 16 January 2017 1
UDSM I ntroduction • Public University financed by the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania • Established in 1961 as a College of the University of London, with 13 students in the Faculty of Law • Current Student Population (2015/ 2016): 25,449 (UG: 22,963; PG: 2,486 PG = 10.8% ; Doctorates = 1.3% ) • Proportion of Female students = 32.9% (UG = 32.1% ; PG = 40.7% ) • Proportion of SET students = 5,258/ 25,449 = 21% • Staff: Acad. 1,173 (F= 23% ); Admin. 791 (F= 43% ) 16 January 2017 2
Nkrumah Assembly Hall 16 January 2017 3
UDSM-HERANA Background • UDSM attending for the 3 rd time, each time represented by new faces! (Was no office directly responsible for institutional data handling) • After last HERANA Seminar (Nov. 2015) UDSM reviewed structure and Formed Directorate of Planning and Development (DPD). Among the main tasks: - Creating, managing and effectively using and publicizing University statistics - Collecting, analyzing, maintaining and handling accurate statistics data of administrative and academic nature 4 16 January 2017
- Analyzing data trends and institutional performance based on internationally recognized approaches - Adopting regional and international data formats and procedures for institutional ranking for regional benchmarking/ ranking, etc. • Started in March, 2016; Submitted data in April 2016. Now we have complete set of data for UDSM • Have completed compilation of 2015/ 16 data • Succeeded to submit data for Ranking to PASET (Partnership for skills in Applied SET) 16 January 2017 5
UDSM ENROLMENTS To 2014/ 15 UDSM ENROLMENT BY PROGRAMME LEVELS 25000 23295 22932 22020 21097 20712 20576 20491 20000 19883 19532 19175 18967 18005 17974 17106 17166 16785 15783 15568 UG-Certificate 15000 14886 14436 STUDENTS 13936 UG-Diploma 12476 12063 11878 UG Degrees 11343 10000 PG Below Masters 9530 9305 8385 Masters 7595 6546 Doctorates 5000 Total_Enrolment 2890 2722 2614 2654 2576 2552 2168 2165 2019 2064 1960 1733 1654 1652 1617 236 199 199 151 126 168 108 146 125 155 0 26 27 83 33 85 44 83 37 67 35 78 73 62 42 47 43 38 0 0 18 YEARS 6
HERANA DATA: TABLE 1 .3 HEAD COUNT STUDENT ENROLMENT BY QUALI F. • Average Total Annual Growth Rate: UDSM= 7.7% ; HERANA Universities= 7.2% • Undergraduate: UDSM= 8.9% ; HERANA= 7.9% • Masters+ Doctorates: UDSM= 0.6% ; HERANA= 9.1% • UDSM has for many years been the main source of graduates in TZ DEMAND (labour market) • Declining resources to run PG programmes led to increased FEES in 2011/ 2012, hence decline of PG enrolment. This year fees have been revised to about 60% of previous enrolment will increase 16 January 2017 7
HERANA DATA: TABLE 1 .3 HEAD COUNT STUDENT ENROLMENT BY QUALI F. CONT. Response to issues: • Changes are within Institutional plans, but influenced by socio-economic (and political?) factors • Enrolment targets available for PG programmes but not achieved yet • Overall, UG Enrollment growing much faster than PG Enrollment. More emphasis and resources needed for increasing enrolment of PG students 16 January 2017 8
UDSM GRADUATES DATA 2009/ 10-2014/ 15 GRADUATES -UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM 2000-2015 9000 Total Graduates 8051 8000 UDSM Bachelor Degr. Grad. 7518 7293 7000 UDSM Cert. Graduates 6740 6287 6255 UDSM Dipl. Graduates 6117 6000 6013 5958 5951 NUMBER OF STUDENTS UDSM PG Below Masters Grad. 5237 5194 5094 5000 4913 UCLAS Bachelor Deg. Graduates 4221 UCLAS PG Below Masters Grad. 4076 4000 3931 3866 3874 3470 UCLAS Masters Graduates 3000 2755 MUCHS Dip Graduates 2602 2451 2271 2000 MUCHS Bachelor Deg. Graduates 1957 1968 1918 1803 1480 MUCHS Masters Graduates 1191 1204 1151 1000 1018 878 817 781 737 708 720 617 UDSM Masters Graduates 575 554 421 391 345 332 318 310 294 293 309 284 286 256 231 179 198 167 152 155 136 125 100 79 63 61 34 41 0 10 12 10 15 8 18 21 14 21 18 24 27 UDSM PhD Graduates 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 YEARS 9
HERANA DATA: TABLES 2 .1 -2 .3 HEAD COUNT ENROLMENT PROPORTI ONS Table 2.1: Proportions of UG Enrollment - • UDSM: 79-92% ; HERANA: 85-88% (UDSM above the max. 85% target!) Table 2.2: Proport. Master + Doctor Students • UDSM: declining from 20.5% to 7.8% • HERANA: Increasing from 10.2% to 14.3% Table 2.3: Proportions of SET Students • UDSM: Declining from 53% to 21% • HERANA: Relatively stable, 28% -33% 16 January 2017 10
HERANA DATA: TABLE 3 .3 GRADUATI ON BY QUALI FI CATI ON TYPE Graduate rates vs. Enrolm ent rate • UDSM- UG: Graduat.= 4 .2 % , Enrolm .= 8 .9 % PG: Grad. Masters= 6 .2 % , Doc.= 5 .4 % , Enrollm ent = 0 .6 % • Graduate as proportion of corresp. enrolm ent totals: UG = 3 0 .5 % , PG = 4 8 .8 % ( > 2 5 % ) • The targets are applicable for UDSM, but w ith caution – program m es have different studying tim e ( e.g.: UG progr: 3 to 5 years, w e com pare graduates to different enrolled students) . For PG, tim e of com pletion is used 11
ACADEMI C STAFF 800 700 699 649 635 611 600 NUMBER OF ACADEMI C STAFF 556 500 489 Professors 400 Associate Professors Senior Lecturers 300 Junior Lecturers 253 249 Others 206 200 201 202 198 182 180 159 154 135 125 112 114 114 111 111 100 102 67 63 64 62 60 56 0 2009/ 10 2010/ 11 2011/ 12 2012/ 13 2013/ 14 2014/ 15 YEARS 16 January 2017 12
HERANA DATA: TABLES 4 .1 -4 .3 ACADEMI C STAFF RESOURCES Table 4.1 Permanent Academic Staff Totals • UDSM Total (2014/ 2015) – 1,173 • UDSM Average Annual Growth Rate: 2.3% (HERANA: 3.1% ) • UDSM has a Staff Succession Plan, but belated! Too many seniors retiring than capacity to recruit new academic staff. Now suspended by Gov. • Policy on FTE students to FTE academics exists but not strictly adhered to… • Ratios in SET are favourable (SET= 10; BFM= 21) due to demand on special needs, e.g. laboratories, workshops, field studies, etc. 13
HERANA DATA: TABLE 5 .3 ACADEMI C STAFF BY HI GHEST QUALI FI CATI ON • Doctoral (2014/ 15): 624/ 1173 = 53.2% (HERANA = 43.8% ) • Change (2009/ 10-2014/ 15): UDSM = 17% ; HERANA = 14% • UDSM requires Doctoral qualification for promotion from Assist. Lecturer to Lecturer. S/ L and above must have doctoral degree. • Incentive are there, both positive and negative - Positive: Promotion, eligibility for higher responsibilities (appointment) - Negative: Overstaying without doctoral will be re-categorized 16 January 2017 14
HERANA DATA: TABLE 6 .3 ACADEMI C STAFF BY RANK • Prof.+ Assoc. Prof.= 1 6 7 / 1 1 7 3 = 1 4 .2 % ( 1 8 .5 % ) • Seniors ( S/ L+ Pr.+ A/ P) = 3 4 9 / 1 1 7 3 = 2 9 .8 % ( 3 9 ) • UDSM has no overall policy for appointm ents to these ranks, only academ ic + m in. tim e • Yes, UDSM has policy governing prom otions • I ncentives? Not direct. -W e have Annual Research W eek exhibitions and com petitions to prom ote research and publication - Appointm ents favor seniors ( incentive or disincentive?) 16 January 2017 15
University Research W eek 16 January 2017 16
HERANA DATA: TABLE 8 .1 -8 .3 DOCTORAL ENROLMENTS & GRADUATES • PhD Enrollm ent 2 0 1 4 / 1 5 : 1 9 9 , only 0 .9 % , ( 1 .3 % ) . Grow th= 1 5 .5 % ( HERANA: 1 0 .7 % ) • Measures put in place include soliciting research funding from developm ent partners ( training com ponent) , fee review ing, etc • Supervisory capacity is enhanced by retaining retiring senior staff ( Prof+ A/ P to 7 0 yrs, S/ L to 6 5 yrs) to bridge gap btn Senior staff and juniors. • Ratio of doctoral graduates to academ ic staff very low ( 0 .0 5 < 0 .1 5 ) • UDSM is enforcing academ ic staff com pletion of doctoral studies – disciplinary m easures 17
RESEARCH AND PUBLI CATI ONS 900 800 801 700 NUMBER OF PUBLI CATI ONS Science Engineering and 621 Technology 607 604 604 600 600 Health & Clinical Sciences Business, Economics 500 471 Education 400 388 376 376 Humanities and Social Sciences 349 349 300 Total Publications 233 214 200 183 183 174 106 100 98 62 58 51 27 29 29 25 16 16 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2009/ 10 2010/ 11 2011/ 12 2012/ 13 2013/ 14 2014/ 2015 YEARS 16 January 2017 18
HERANA DATA: TABLE 9 .1 -9 .2 RESEARCH & PUBLI CATI ONS • Research publication output very low (in 2014/ 15 only 135; Growth rate 6.4% ) • Ratio of Research Publications to Academic Staff Extremely low, 0.12 < < 1.0 Most staff are junior, on training (existing gap between seniors and juniors, no intermediate) • UDSM has no clear plans except for promotion, research week winners’ awards and requirement on PhD candidates to publish at least 1 journal paper • Yes, DVC (Research), Director of Research, DPGS, and Research coordinators in each University Units To coordinate research activities, To mobilize and manage research funds 19 To organize and oversee Research Week activities
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