Several years into a collaborative professional development programme to build the Leadership for Learning capacity of Basic school headteachers throughout Ghana, the challenge is to sustain commitment, deepen understanding ...

This article analyses selected texts from documents on the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE) policy implementation in Ghana to unearth the discursive shift in policy (i.e. from predominantly socialist/social ...

This paper will explore some of the tensions that arise for Ghanaian headteachers in trying to resolve traditional and tribal expectations with ‘Western’ conceptions of leadership roles and competencies. These are ...

The goal of the study is to analyze the perception of head teachers on the instructional performance of teachers by distance learning in the Upper West Region of Ghana. We cannot continue to pretend distance education does ...

The Basic School Computerization policy was created in 2011 to introduce computers and elearning into the entire educational system to promote training and life-long learning. Using data obtained by Connect for Change ...

A critical assessment of education policy and practice in Ghana suggests that despite the initiation of the concept of decentralization, education policy making and implementation is still perceived as adopting a hierarchical ...

Educational reforms have become a key global feature of contemporary higher education. Majority of these reform initiatives in developing nations appear to be characterised by the importation of success stories from developed ...

Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have, over the years, acknowledged school education as the driver through which the achievement of their countries’ development goals can be accelerated. Indeed, as Amaele (2004) puts ...

The enclave of education through educational technology continues to raid the whole wide world with its attendant benefits. If how 21st century classroom preservice teachers in the colleges of education teach with educational ...

This study sought to understand the process of providing on-campus practical experience to teacher trainees in preparation for practicum in basic schools, and how the trainees perceive these. It used the mixed method ...