Empirical Analysis on the Effect of Antecedents of the University of Nairobi's Academic Quality: Based on SEM Model

Abstract

The empirical robustness affirmation of the effect of academic parameters on the academic quality of the University of Nairobi(UON) is what this study concerns. The study is as well integrated and dynamic in approach but based on a different set of primary data from that implied in previous related studies. It is regarding the key parameters under concern, and, specific objective is; -Implicating how (inter-)relational association and effects that key parameters of higher academia postulates on the academic quality of this university based on Empirical integration of primary data through assimilation of UON's Times Higher Education (THE)'s academic quality assessment through its variables and weights allocation in comparison to ‘world class universities performance , usually perceived as homologous and divergent in structural actuation, and the justification of relevance of the integral scenario for academic benchmarking.

Most importantly the study aims at explicating the influential impact, interrelations and correlational of key parameters of concern based on THE's integrated model (i.e., research, performance, teaching, attitude and internalization) on academic quality of UON while using deeply enshrined data generating structural dataset and models that are best known to capture well primary dataset underlining relations. This exercise is also in a bid to ascertain the relevant and key effects/impacts reported in the previous studies. The overall empirical errand is an extension of the objective of the study to generally address the temporal academic variances amid UON's academic transformation.