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Direct linkAyentimi, Desmond Tutu; Abadi, Hossein Ali – Higher Education Research and Development, 2023
This article is grounded on an exploratory inquiry to explain the low rates of female academics in Ghana's higher education sector and its implication for higher education policy and practice. Though our article shows the continued presence of institutional barriers, the evidence suggests that these are strongly fortified by dispositional (women's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, College Faculty, Higher Education
Hilson, Gavin – Journal of Rural Studies, 2010
This paper offers an alternative viewpoint on why people choose to engage in artisanal mining--the low tech mineral extraction and processing of mainly precious metals and stones--for extended periods in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing upon experiences from Akwatia, Ghana's epicentre of diamond production since the mid-1920s, the analysis challenges…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Trade, Developing Nations, Poverty
