ERIC Number: EJ1439071
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Sep
Pages: 20
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Examination of Globalisation's Clouts on Ghana's Tertiary Education Policy
Fred Kofi Boateng; Usman Abonyi; Emmanuel Intsiful
Policy Futures in Education, v22 n6 p1130-1149 2024
The paper examined and analysed the extent globalisation and its dimensions impinged Ghana's tertiary education policy landscape in global and national historical and contemporary perspectives. Historical and contemporary policy documents and articles, that help to understand how globalisation and its antecedents have interwoven and permeated the dynamics underpinning Ghana's tertiary education policy, were used as conduits for the analysis. Within the context of structural adjustment and democratisation juggernauts triggered by the West, neoliberal reforms were initiated in the early 1990s. They were characterised by the liberalisation of the sector for the establishment of private tertiary education institutions, creation of buffer agencies to ensure effective stakeholder control in policy and quality assurance of those institutions, initiating laissez-faire financial reforms and incorporating non-governmental financial responsibility. Nonetheless, they concomitantly spurred the tertiary education institutions to drift towards entrepreneurialism and innovation through activities such as research, fee policies and collaborations with vital stakeholders. Although the reforms were geared towards market, the Ghanaian system of tertiary education remains a quasi-market system with substantial governmental control.
Descriptors: Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Policy Analysis, Marketing, Government School Relationship, Budgets, Educational Finance, Partnerships in Education, Public Colleges, Neoliberalism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ghana
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