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The interviewees were both staff and disabled students from the four universities. As pointed out earlier, the actual number of interviewees was challenging to pre- determine, particularly for disabled students due to lack of data on disabled people in higher education. The intent, however, was to draw interviewee, particularly, the staff from both academic and non-academic programmes and disabled students drawn from all the known common disabilities in the country. Further to this for the staff, attention was also paid to ensure that the staff are selected from both sciences oriented faculties and humanities. This is to ensure views from both academic disciplines are gathered about the research question. It is noted that, some academic units relate disability to physical inability to undertake some academic courses, as such; these academic units feel that there are some courses that a particular category of disabled people cannot undertake.11 The procedures of selecting the participants have also already above.
Altogether, 46 university staff participated, i.e. 35 academic and 11 administrative staff.12 For disabled students, 50 participated in the 5 focus groups (to be discussed further below); in-depth interviews were held with 14, while 57 completed the questionnaires out of 117 questionnaires delivered to disabled students in all the four universities. The table below provides a summary of proposed participants and those who participated in the research in each university.
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See chapter one. 12
The academics included the Faculty Deans, Heads of Departments, Academic Registrars and Librarians. The administrative staff were Deans of Students, Wardens of halls of residences and Heads of non-academic units like planning, sports and administration.
Table 4: Summary of proposed participants and those who responded in each university
Table 5.1 Public University 1
Category Category of Participant Participated? Department of Gender
and Women Studies
Head of Department Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Department of Mass Communication
Lecturer Yes, Telephone interview Faculty of Social
Sciences
Faculty Registrar Yes, face to face interviews Faculty of Human
Medicine
Dean None response
Faculty of Information
and Computer
Technology
Deputy Dean Academic Affairs
Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
Deputy Dean Academic Affairs
Yes, filled the staff questionnaire
Faculty of veterinary medicine
Head of Department veterinary and public health.
and
Ag. Head of Department Wild Life Authority and Management.
Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the 2 participants.
Faculty of Education Dean Non-response
Faculty of Law Deputy Dean
Undergraduates Studies
Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Faculty of Agriculture Faculty Registrar Yes, filled staff questionnaire East African School of
Librarianship
Faculty Registrar Yes, filled staff questionnaire Faculty of Forestry and
nature conservation
Dean of the Faculty Yes, filled staff questionnaire Dean of Students office Dean of Students Yes, face to face interview
was conducted with the participant.
Sports and recreation Head Non-response Halls of Residences
(4)
Four Wardens Yes, face to face interview was conducted with one and telephone interview with the other 3.
University Planning Department
Head Documents collected
Library University Librarian Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the
participant. Disabled students Disabled students Yes,
Face to face interview and focus group discussions held- see details in the section discussing data collection.
40 Questionnaires were distributed and 17 were returned filled
Table 6.2: Public University 2
Category Participant Mode of data collection
applied Faculty of Arts and
Social Sciences
Faculty Dean Yes, filled staff questionnaire Faculty of Special Needs
and Rehabilitation
Head of Department Community and Disability Studies
Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant. Faculty of Science Faculty Dean No response
Faculty of Vocational Studies Faculty Dean Head of Department Business Studies Head of Department Agriculture Senior Lecturer Department of fine Art and design
Yes, filled staff questionnaire and also face to face interview was conducted.
Yes, face to face interview was conducted and also filled the questionnaire
Yes, filled staff questionnaire
Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant. Faculty of Education Head of Department
Distance Education
Yes, held telephone interview with the participant
Sports and Recreation Head Non-response Faculty of Engineering Faculty Dean Non response
Dean of Students Dean of Students Yes, face to face interview was conducted with participant. Library Deputy Librarian Yes, face to face interview was
conducted with the participant.
Academic Staff Body Chairperson Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant. Halls of Residences (3) Three Wardens Yes, face to face with one and 2
Filled staff Questionnaires Disabled students Disabled students Yes,
Face to face interviews and focus group discussions were held- see details in the section on data collection.
67 questionnaires were distributed to disabled students and 36 were returned filled.
Table 7.3 Private University 1
Category Participant Mode of data collection
applied Department of Development
Studies
Head of Department Yes, participant filled staff questionnaire
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty Dean Yes, face to face interview was conducted and also filled questionnaire
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty Dean Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Faculty of Management and Administration
Head of Department Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Yes, face to face interview was conducted and also filled questionnaire
Faculty of Education Faculty Dean None response Faculty of Theology and
Divinity
Deputy Dean Non response Vice Chancellor‘s office Public Relations
Officer
Yes, participant filled staff questionnaire
Students Guild Guild President Yes, a telephone interview was held with the participant
Department of Linguistics Head of department Yes, face to face interview was conducted and also filled questionnaire
Department of Mass Communication
Head of Department Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Planning Unit Head Non-response
Department of Health Sciences
Head of Department Yes, Face to face interviews was conducted with the
participant
Halls of Residences (2) The 2 Wardens Yes, face to face interview was conducted with one; and other filled a questionnaire
Library Deputy Librarian Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Sports and recreation Head Non-response
Disabled students Disabled students Yes, telephone interviews held with 3 students. 10 questionnaires distributed and 4 were returned filled
Table 8.4: Private University 2
Category Participant Mode of data collection
applied Faculty of Social Science
and Management
Faculty Dean and Head of Department Management
Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the 2 participants.
Academic Registrar Office
Academic Registrar Yes, face to face interview was conducted with the participant.
Finance and
Administration
One staff Face to face interviews Sports and Recreation Head of the Unit Non-response
Planning Unit Head Non-response
Disabled Students Disabled student Yes, face to face interview was conducted with one disabled student.
Planned focus grouped could not be held due to examinations.
7 Questionnaires were distributed, none was returned.
The unmet expectations were as follows:
On disabled students, whereas it was proposed to reach every category of disabled student registered in the four universities, it was not easy to identify students with mental health disabilities due to lack of records about them in the universities. Universities do not require students to
declare whether they have mental disability or not. Even the associations of disabled students in the universities visited claimed they had not registered a student with mental disability. Also, in public university 1, it was not possible to interview deaf students due to lack of sign language interpreter. In both private university 1 and private university 2, there were no blind or deaf students registered at the time of this research. In private university 2, only one student with physical disability was interviewed. It was not possible to interview the rest as they were engaged in examinations.
For the staff, it was not possible interview 12 out of the 58 who had agreed to be interviewed as showed by non-response in the 4 tables above.