Time Management Ethics for Quality of University Education in Kenya: A Comparative Study of Selected Schools in a Public and a Private University in the North Rift Region of Kenya

Abstract

Research focused on time management in terms of students and lecturers academic ethics in relation to quality education. The study was a comparative study of public and private universities in Kenya. Fewer studies examine student and lecturers' time management more broadly. Of particular interest is whether students and lecturers in universities today conceptualize time management ethics as a way of achieving quality university education. We collected and analyzed qualitative responses from 16 lecturers and 56 students from two universities in order to compare and understand how they define and demonstrate time management in their lives as students and lecturers. Consistent with the current literature, our data showed that time management in academics was predominantly taken as an efficient and effective use of hours allocated for teaching and learning for quality education. Planned time promotes the achievement of quality grades and saves the cost of education, Challenges such as late commencement of lectures in a semester, time table collisions, missing lecturers, students and lecturers strikes has derailed the achievement of quality education. The findings suggest that the university management should develop a policy on time management, guidelines and penalties for non-compliance on academic timelines among students, lecturers and the university management.