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Addressing Quality Issues in African Higher Education: A Focus on Ghana’s Emerging Private, Graduate, Business Higher Education Sector

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors

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  • Stephen Armah

    (Ashesi University College)

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The chapter addresses supply, demand, and policy-related challenges faced by private, graduate business universities in Ghana to obtain strategies to improve the quality standard. Reviews of literature and published documents as well as lessons learned from the history of Ghana’s public graduate education sector reveals that major challenges include the profit motive of universities’ founders, inadequate funding of universities, as well as moral hazard and adverse selection problems related to the pool of available graduate students and graduate schools. The National Accreditation Board (NAB), now Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) is resource-challenged and struggles to keep up with the numerous private universities springing up.

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  • Stephen Armah, 2022. "Addressing Quality Issues in African Higher Education: A Focus on Ghana’s Emerging Private, Graduate, Business Higher Education Sector," Springer Books, in: Evelyn F. Wamboye & Bichaka Fayissa (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Africa’s Economic Sectors, pages 457-477, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-75556-0_17
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75556-0_17
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