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Examining the Implications of Massification of Education on Quality Assurance and Assessment in Higher Institutions in Lesotho

by Neo Tlali | Tawanda Mukurunge | Takura Bhila "Examining the Implications of Massification of Education on Quality Assurance and Assessment in Higher Institutions in Lesotho" 

Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-3 , April 2019, 

URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd23493.pdf

Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/23493/examining-the-implications-of-massification-of-education-on-quality-assurance-and-assessment-in-higher-institutions-in-lesotho/neo-tlali

call for paper Education, international journal Education, ugc approved journals Education

In recent years, we have witnessed rapid growth of tertiary institutions in Africa and this expansion has led to the massification and privatization of higher education. “Massification has been defined as the mass adaptation of a phenomenon by the suppression of its distinguishing features”. Scott 1995 “used the term massification in the context of higher education HE systems to describe the rapid increase in student enrolment in the latter part of the twentieth century”. Lesotho has not been spared from this system and there has been growth of various higher institutions in the country mainly privately owned. Students have been enrolled in huge numbers in these institutions and this has resulted in large numbers of students and shrinking number of lecturers leading to disproportional ratios of lecturers to students. Students joining these institutions are faced with various challenges emanating from lack of resources, congestion, alienation and subsequent workload for academic staff. Demands and challenges of massification in higher education have also seen academics with added responsibilities of diversifying to improve the quality of delivery with scant resources. This paper explores the experiences and challenges faced by academics as well as students in higher institutions during this expansion era. Massification has been an issue of debate by both higher education researchers and policy makers globally hence the research intends to investigate how these policies have been addressed in other countries and how they can best be adopted to higher education in Lesotho. The study also attempts to learn about existing policies which are intended to revamp the quality of higher education, and or make considerable suggestions to higher education or how best quality can be maintained in the wake of massification. The study further hinges on the number of local higher learning centres institutions and the students enrolling in these establishments and how institutions ensure quality and proper assessment on learning, teaching and assessment. 

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Massification.

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In Storper’s ‘Lived Effects of the Contemporary Economy: Globalization, Inequality, and Consumer Society,’ one of the points that I found most interesting and relevant is that in today’s economy, it is often the best practice to appeal to the ‘middle of the market’ to appease as many people as possible and maximize sales. This, he says, leads to a ‘massification’ of commodities, where, despite appearances of variety and distinction in many products, they are available almost everywhere to nearly everyone.

The example that I chose to share for this theory if from a CNBC documentary about Costco that I saw a few weeks ago. In it, they point out that Costco is one of the top wine retailers in the country, which may be surprising for a store whose top-selling product is toilet paper. They point out in the video that there is one woman who travels the world selecting which wines will be available in Costco stores. Along with this, they say that Costco has been responsible for developing and raising the nation’s taste in wine over the years.

This brought me back to Storper’s idea of massification because while it may be true that Americans are taking an interest in more ‘exotic’ wines because of Costco’s low prices and easily-selectable environment, what is really happening is one woman (or a team of people) is essentially deciding for the country which wines they will like. Storper mentions that ‘you can find specialty manufactured products in specialty stores if you know where to look’ (117), which is true of wines, but according to the video, this selection was overly intimidating for most, who prefer to essentially be told what to buy.

The video provided is only a clip, but the entire show is very interesting if you have time!

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PARDEE HOUSE SEMINAR: MASSIFICATION AND THE FUTURE OF UNIVERSITIES WORLDWIDE

Dr. Philip Altbach discussed the impact of “massification” or the growing global educated population in the Pardee House Seminar, “Future Roles of Universities Worldwide: Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower?” on January 24, 2012. Dr. Altbach is the Director at the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. To see the complete lecture click here.

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