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Adams, Abdul-Moomin; Baddianaah, Issah – International Journal of Training Research, 2023
This study analysed the trends in enrolment and access to Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) at the second cycle level in Ghana to ascertain the factors affecting female enrolment in TVET in sub-Saharan Africa. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to collect data from 180 respondents using survey questionnaires. The results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends, Access to Education, Vocational Education
Aboabea Gertrude Akuffo – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
Government implemented education access policies occupy a prominent place in the discourse on access to education. Education access issues have, thus, been examined almost exclusively from macro-level structural perspective. The micro-politics that take place behind the scenes after structural access issues have been resolved is minimally…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Access to Education
Amanda Nkansah Quarshie; Godfred Bonnah Nkansah; Eric Oduro-Ofori – SAGE Open, 2023
Despite the World Declaration on Higher Education for the 21st Century that education is the ultimate support of human rights, and that access and participation remain key catalysts to accelerating equal educational opportunities for all, females continue to trail their male counterparts in educational outcomes across sub-Saharan Africa. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, Equal Education, Higher Education
Raymond Tangonyire; Gloria Nyame; Kwame Bediako Asare; Amina Jangu Alhassan – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
This study examines the experiences of the only three female headteachers leading boys' senior high schools (SHS) in Ghana to understand the uniqueness of their career journeys, on-the-job experiences and the leadership strategies. Qualitative phenomenological approach was used for the study. The three women were interviewed multiple times over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Administrators, Single Sex Schools
Leslie-Walker, Anika; Mulvenna, Claire; Bramble, Oneida – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
This study sought to explore the motivations and challenges to the engagement of female West African university students, whilst participating in competitive and non-competitive extra-curricular sport and physical activity (ECSPA). The study was situated at a university in the North West of England that has a culturally diverse student population.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Affordances, Barriers
Bernard Afiik Akanpabadai Akanbang; Constance Aneleru; Maxwell Akansina Aziabah – SAGE Open, 2023
Promoting female learning otherwise known as Girl Child Education continues to engage the attention of policy makers and practitioners in education and development generally; a situation greatly shaped by the myriad of obstacles militating against girl child education. In the current study, we probed the influence of CAMFED's girl child education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Womens Education, Access to Education
Gifty Oforiwaa Gyamera; Dora Animwaa Mireku; Vanessa Tsetse – Cogent Education, 2024
Whilst university-community engagement has become an important aspect of modern universities, it often tends to re/produce inequalities and power imbalances, reinforcing stereotypes and negative identities. Much attention on these inequalities has focussed on the experiences of community members. Students' identities and challenges in these…
Descriptors: Females, College Students, Gender Bias, Sex Stereotypes
Adult Female Learners' Perceptions of and Experiences with Distance Education at University of Ghana
Ama Adu-Marfo; Isaac Biney; Moses Kumi Asamoah – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper highlights adult female learners' perception and experiences with blended distance education (DE) program in the University of Ghana. It specifically investigates female students' experiences with male and female tutors' tutoring styles, learner support services, the use of educational technology as well as the extent of the…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, Adult Students, Student Attitudes
Heslop, Jo; Parkes, Jenny; Januario, Francisco; Sabaa, Susan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
Efforts to address school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) globally are hampered by conceptual and methodological difficulties in capturing meaningful data needed to inform policy and practice. Whilst the emphases of influential studies tend to be on measuring practice of violence, the authors investigate whether they can develop a more…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Violence, Cultural Differences, Educational Environment
Tikly, Leon; Vogel, Epke; Kurvers, Carmen – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2020
While technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has the potential to bolster the participation of women in the labour market, this potential is not always well understood and capitalized on. In general, female students are lowly represented in TVET compared to general programmes, and in particular girls and women tend to be…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Equal Education, Gender Bias, Females
McGraw, Rebecca; Piatek-Jimenez, Katrina; Wiest, Lynda; Dias, Ana; Lessa Gonçalves, Harryson Júnio; Hall, Jennifer; Hodge, Angie; Kersey, Betsy; Rubel, Laurie – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
The Gender and Sexuality in Mathematics Education Working Group convened in 2018 with a focus on (1) language use, multidimensional understandings of gender and sexuality, and influences of these on methods, results, and interpretations; (2) interactions between gender/sexuality and students' self-perceptions; and (3) the roles of curriculum,…
Descriptors: Gender Issues, Gender Differences, Sexuality, Mathematics Education
Arku, Frank S.; Angmor, Emmanuel N.; Tetteh, Isaac K. – Educational Research Quarterly, 2014
The importance of girl-child education is largely documented and initiatives to promote girl-child education are widespread. However, studies on service delivery methods, processes and the impacts are limited in the literature. This study assessed the Plan Ghana's girl-child educational project. According to the findings, the project has helped to…
Descriptors: Females, Outcomes of Education, Program Descriptions, Self Esteem
Davenport, Elizabeth K.; Sutton, Lenford; Agezo, Clement Kwadzo – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2006
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan (2000) delivered a speech at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, stating that, of the 110 million children in the world who should be in school but are not, two-thirds are girls. The lack of equality is contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, in which governments committed to…
Descriptors: Blacks, African Americans, Females, Educational Attainment