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Getting Ready for Accreditation: Internal Quality Assurance in Teacher Education Institutions in Ghana

Bosu, Rosemary S.; Amakyi, Michael (Journal of Business Administration and Education, 2014)

The importance of tertiary education cannot be over emphasized. Tertiary institutions provide a nation with varied human capital essential for building and growing the economy of a nation. Human development through the ...
Involvement of school management committees In school-based management: Experiences from two districts of ghana

ABREH, MIGHT K. (Educational Planning, 2017)

In this study, School Management Committees in Akatsi South and Upper Manya Krobo of Ghana to examine their involvement and participation in school based management practices. A phenomenological approach was used to ...
Female Access and Participation in Tertiary Education: Do Traditional Beliefs and Practices Matter?

Bosu, Rosemary Seiwah; Dawson-Amoah, Gifty (Journal of Business Administration and Education, 2018)

Society’s behavior is largely influenced by traditional practices, beliefs and perceptions. It is therefore probable that the likelihood of females continuing their education to the tertiary level would be affected by these ...
Exploring the policy implementation paradox: using the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE) policy in Ghana as an exemplar

Nudzor, Hope Pius (International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2013)

This paper uses the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE) policy implementation in Ghana as an exemplar to explore the apparent disjuncture between policy intentions in theory and outcomes of implementation ...
Exploring the policy implementation paradox: using the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE) policy in Ghana as an exemplar

Nudzor, Hope Pius (International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2012)

This paper uses the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (fCUBE) policy implementation in Ghana as an exemplar to explore the apparent disjuncture between policy intentions in theory and outcomes of implementation ...
Examining educational Leadership and quality In developing countries

Oduro, George; Dachi, Hillary; Fertig, Michael; Rarieya, Jane (EdQual RPC, 2007)

This paper examines the issues facing primary school leaders in developing countries as the push towards greater educational quality accelerates under the impact of the Millennium Development Goals. The authors seek to ...
Examining activity-based learning (ABL) practices in public basic schools in the northern region of Ghana

Nudzor, Hope P.; Dare, Albert; Oduro, George K.T.; Bosu, Rosemary; Addy, Nii (Educational Research, 2015)

Background: Ghana has been the testing ground for many teaching and learning initiatives over the past 15–20 years. These initiatives, largely funded by donors, have sought to improve learning by introducing and reinforcing ...
An Evaluation of Head teachers Performance in Supervision of Instruction and Involvement of Staff in Decision-Making in the School

Amina, Jangu Alhassan (International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies, 2015)

Head teachers are expected to provide some services that will enhance the smooth performance of teachers in the school. This study evaluates the extent to which head teachers provide these services with particular reference ...
Evaluation of Ghana's 2007 Educational Policy: Effects on Education in the Upper West Region

Alhassan, Amina Jangu (Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2020)

The Ghana 2007 educational policy aims to improve performance in the education sector. The current study is interested in investigating the provisions made for free and compulsory education in the Ghana 2007 educational ...
Ensuring equity and Inclusion in higher Education provision: ghana’s Approach

Swanzy, Patrick; Langa, Patrício V.; Ansah, Francis (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, 2019)

The current economic stage of the world is argued to be that of a knowledge economy. This refers to a shift from the dependence on natural resources to a new paradigm where the production and use of knowledge are ...
Enhancing post-graduate programme effectiveness through tracer studies: the reflective accounts of a Ghanaian nation-wide graduate tracer study research team

Nudzor, Hope Pius; Ansah, Francis (Quality in Higher Education, 2020)

Graduate tracer studies have come to represent one of the key approaches for enhancing study programme effectiveness in contemporary higher education. This has led to a surge in graduate tracer studies by Ghanaian higher ...
Enhancing Access to Education for out-of-school Children in Hard to Reach Communities in Ghana: The ACE experience

Ampiah, Joseph Ghartey; Davis, Ernest Kofi; Abreh, Might Kojo; Fletcher, Jonathan Arko (Enhancing Access to Education for out-of-school Children in Hard to Reach Communities in Ghana: The ACE experience, 2013)

Access to quality Basic Education for all school-age children has been the vision of governments of many developing countries, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the way to provide access to quality education ...
Educational Leadership and Quality Education in Disadvantaged Communities in Ghana and Tanzania.

Oduro, George K.T.; Dachi, Hillary; Fertig, Michael (The Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration & Management Conference, 2008)

Achieving quality in education has increasingly become crucial in strategic improvement plans of developing countries. While the concept of quality and its priority indicators may differ from country to country, it is ...
Distributed Leadership and School Improvement Leading or Misleading?

Harris, Alma (Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015)

This article considers the relationship between distributed leadership and school improvement. Drawing upon empirical evidence from two contemporary studies of successful school leadership and recent studies of school ...
‘Distributed Leadership’ In Schools: What English Headteachers Say About The ‘Pull’ And ‘Push’ Factors.

Oduro, George (BERA Annual Conference, 2004)

This paper addresses three main questions about distributed leadership. Firstly, what meanings are attributed to the term distributed leadership within headteachers’ working vocabulary? Secondly, do headteachers conceptualise ...
Distributed Leadership: A Developmental Process

MacBeath, John; Oduro, George; Waterhouse, Joanne (International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, 2005)

This paper outlines the methods and key findings of a small-scale research project that aimed to investigate the lived realities and practical implications of what has come to be known as 'distributed leadership'. The ...
Dilemma of Access and Provision of Quality Basic Education in Central Region, Ghana

Amakyi, Michael; Ampah-Mensah, Alfred (Journal of Education and Practice, 2016)

A survey research was conducted to find out if reported improvements in access to education in Ghana are reflected in comparable improvements in delivery of quality education. The study examined theoretical constructs ...
Developing Leadership for Learning in Ghana: opportunities and challenges

MacBeath, John; Swaffield, Sue; Oduro, George; Bosu, Rosemary (International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, 2010)

A current major initiative of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge is a collaboration with the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, aimed at improving the quality of pedagogy in Ghanaian basic ...
Designing self-evaluation instruments for academic programmes: lessons and challenges

Ansah, Francis (Evaluation & Research in Education, 2010)

A study was conducted to design valid and reliable self-evaluation instruments for periodic evaluation of academic programmes of Bolgatanga Polytechnic in Ghana, using evaluation experts and relevant stakeholders of the ...
Depicting young people by what they are not: conceptualisation and usage of NEET as a deficit label.

Nudzor, Hope (Educationalfutures, 2010)

Over the last decade particularly in the UK, the term NEET (not in education, employment or training) has been used excessively by the New Labour Government to deal with concerns of social and economic exclusion among ...

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