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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01qr46r360j| Title: | Rethinking Higher Education Governance in Ghana: Reflections of a Professional Administrator |
| Contributors: | Effah, Paul |
| Keywords: | higher education Ghana governance administrators leadership training administration |
| Issue Date: | 2018 |
| Publisher: | CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) |
| Place of Publication: | Dakar, Senegal |
| Series/Report no.: | CODESRIA Working Paper Series, 2018 |
| Description: | In this book, I begin a journey from childhood to adulthood using the opportunity to rethink the higher education system in Ghana. These reflections are structured into eight chapters. Chapter One, the introduction, gives an overview of higher education in Ghana, tracing the development of higher from Achimota College in the late 1920’s to the current period. Chapter Two, childhood, early life and choice of a career gives an account of how the author progressed through childhood to the position of university administrator. Chapter Three talks about the University. As the title A University in the midst of Turbulence indicates, the University of Cape Coast has experienced some challenges in the past. The chapter discusses the challenges and how they were addressed. The chapter ends with a discussion of how the university was returned to normalcy and the role played by subsequent university administrations. Chapter Four recounts the role played by the author as the founding Registrar of the University for Development Studies, Tamale. In Chapter Five the author outlines efforts towards repositioning the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) to its preeminent position in the higher education subsector in Ghana. The chapter further discusses the author’s role in managing two major donor interventions – that of the World Bank and the Government of Netherlands . Chapter Six is on institutionalisation of Training in Governance and Leadership. As part of the author’s vision for tertiary education, he had indicated the need to organise training for heads of tertiary education institutions as well as their councils. These training programmes were institutionalised by NCTE and later scaled up as Senior Academic Leadership Training (SALT) for West Africa. The chapter outlines the impact of SALT in Ghana and Nigeria. In Chapter Seven, the author’s stint as an Academic in the position of scholar In-Residence at GIMPA and as President of the Radford University College, are discussed. In the last chapter, consultancies, national assignments and scholarly works by the author are discussed. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01qr46r360j |
| ISSN: | 978-2-86978-786-5 |
| Related resource: | http://www.codesria.org |
| Appears in Collections: | Serials and series reports (Publicly Accessible) - CODESRIA |
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