CRESCER SEM PERDER QUALIDADE: MENSURAÇÃO DA PRODUTIVIDADE E DA INTEGRAÇÃO CURRICULAR DA EXTENSÃO UNIVERSITÁRIA NUM INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO ANGOLANO (2023–2026)

ELISEU  CHIPACO; JOÃO TOBIAS CUNHA

Authors

ELISEU CHIPACO Instituto Superior Politécnico Sol Nascente https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-2341
JOÃO TOBIAS CUNHA Instituto Superior Politécnico Sol Nascente https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6513-2341

Abstract

University extension has become a mandatory object of external evaluation in Angola, yet it remains virtually absent from research on higher education in Lusophone Africa. This article examines what happens when an institution with limited administrative capacity starts to count its extension activity, taking a private polytechnic institute in Huambo as a case. Drawing on documentary analysis of 33 institutional documents (2023–2026), we classified 83 activities using an explicit protocol and applied a 21-indicator framework and an Action Quality Index (AQI, 0–4) to the extension actions. Only 27 of the 83 activities were extension actions. Actions rose from two per year (2023–2024) to 14 in 2025, but the mean AQI fell from 3.25 to 1.57 before recovering to 2.44 in 2026 (p = .010). Growth came from curricular field studies and event-based actions that rarely involved partners and never counted beneficiaries. Only 22.2% of actions were anchored in a course unit, mostly in health programmes, and 48.1% were concentrated in a single neighbourhood. We argue that, without classification rules and quality targets, evaluative pressure tends to reward volume over substance, and we propose a minimum dataset and quality-weighted targets as a low-cost response.

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