Influence of Institutional Factors on Students Involvement in the Governance of Tertiary Institutions in Kisumu Central Sub County, Kisumu County, Kenya
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Date
2017Author
Onyango, Duncan, O
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ThesisLanguage
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Corporate governance broadly refers to the mechanisms, relationships, and processes by
which a corporate is controlled. It involves balancing the interests of many stakeholders
of the corporation. In education, it’s the framework of roles, relationships, systems and
processes within which authority is exercised and controlled. Corporate governance is
gaining significant level of recognition in various sectors including in education since it
clearly reflects the interactions among the various stakeholders. Despite this, there
however seems to be a disconnect between various aspects of the stakeholders and their
effects in governance which consequently affects effective governance. The purpose of
the study was to investigate the influence of Institutional Factors on the student
participation in the governance of tertiary institutions in Kisumu Central Sub County,
Kisumu County. The study was guided by the following objectives; to establish the extent
to which the transition nature of students, the size of institutions, programme
arrangements and roles of institutions governing student involvement in governance
influence their participation in governance of tertiary institutions in Kisumu Central Sub
County, Kisumu County. The study employed descriptive survey design which targeted
298 lecturers and 14 heads of tertiary institutions in Kisumu Central Sub County. The
participating institutions were categorized into National Polytechnics, regional
polytechnics and county polytechnics. All the heads of the institutions were sampled
since they were few and 166 of lecturers were sampled through simple random sampling.
This represented 18% of all the lecturers. Two different questionnaires were designed to
obtain data from heads of institutions and from lecturers. Data obtained was both
quantitative and qualitative. Qualitative data were put under themes consistent with the
research objectives in order to determine the relationship between the dependent variable
which is the involvement of students in the governance of tertiary institutions and
independent variables which include transition, size of the institution, programme
arrangements and organizational rules; ANOVA (Analysis of variance test) was used at
the 0.05 level of significance. Quantitative data was coded and entered into the SPSS
programme of analysis. Findings from the study indicated that student involvement in
governance will be ineffective if there was no transition institutional size, programme
arrangements and organizational rules. From the study it can be concluded that
institutional factors influences students involvement in governance but the extent varies
from one institutional factor to another. The thus recommends that stakeholders involved
in institutional governance should consider institutional factors when designing
governance structures and making decisions on issues pertaining to governance.
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University of Nairobi
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