DEFICIENCIES

REMEDIES

1. Inadequate coverage of curriculum.

2. More innovative courses required.

3. Inadequate number of practicals conducted.

4. Course content, learning materials and course delivery are not adequate,

5. More skills acquisition needed.

6. Internal Quality Assurance Unit is ineffective.

7. Inadequate academic staff.

8. Non available of academic core staff

9. Inexperienced administration of the department.

10. Nonexistence of Physiotherapy Technologist

11. Only 58.3% of academic staff have benefitted from staff development programme.

12. The Physiotherapy Laboratory is inadequate.

13. Improper furnishing of staff Offices.

14. Additional currency of holdings needed

15. Funding is inadequate for the programme.

16. Nonexistence of Research and Collaboration.

1. The university should ensure the curriculum is fully covered at all times.

2. The university should add more innovative courses as only Public Health Nutrition was seen.

3. The university should conduct more practicals such as electrotherapy, exercise therapy and clinical physiotherapy.

4. The university should ensure more learning materials and physical facilties are available.

5. The university should ensure students acquire more hard and soft skills relevant to the programme.

6. The University should ensure functional Internal Quality Assurance Unit with regards to minutes of meetings and decision making documents.

7. The university should engage more lecturers on permanent appointment as most professors are on part time basis.

8. The university should engage more core academic staff relevant to the programme.

9. The university should ensure the department is run by a qualified HOD who is a senior lecturer or professor.

10. The university should engage a technologist in the core area of Physiotherapy.

11. The University should encourage all academic and non-academic staff to take advantage of its staff development programme.

12. The University should increase the size of the laboratory so as to accommodate more students and acquire additional equipment such multi-gym suspension unit and ultrasound machine.

13. The university should properly equip all offices especially the HOD and that of professors as they lack conveniences.

14. The university should ensure additional copies of current books are provided in the library.

15. The University should allocate more funds to the programme.

16. The university should ensure that Research and Collaboration exists among academic staff from other universities.