ERIC Number: EJ854744
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Mar
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-0738-0593
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Skills Development, Employment and Sustained Growth in Ghana: Sustainability Challenges
Palmer, Robert
International Journal of Educational Development, v29 n2 p133-139 Mar 2009
Against a backdrop of some two decades of sustained economic growth in Ghana, this paper argues that there are a series of sustainability challenges related to technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) that need to be addressed. This paper analyses several sustainability dimensions of TVSD related to: promoting the sustainability of education-for-all achievements through expanding post-basic education and TVSD; identifying sustainable financing mechanisms for an expansion of TVSD; promoting and sustaining equitable access; ensuring that expansion in quantity does not lead to a compromise on the achievement and sustainability of quality and relevance issues; promoting the sustainability of TVSD expansion by widening opportunities for lifelong learning; creating an enabling environment for skills utilization through sustainable employment growth.
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Employment, Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Skill Development, Educational Development, Developing Nations, Labor Force Development, Educational Policy, Educational Finance, Economic Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ghana
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Equal Access
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