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Ghana's universities face socioeconomic challenges in the context of SAPs and fiscal restraint. The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa commissioned case studies of higher education provision in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, as part of its effort to stimulate enlightened, equitable, and knowledge-based national development, and to provide guides to understanding. This study is set in the context of Ghana's socioeconomic realities, in an economy dominated by structural adjustment programming, fiscal restraint and Ghana's recent status as a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC). Ghana's public universities have faced competition from offshore unive...
This book chronicles the establishment of Ghana's first university degree program in home science. It brings to life the challenges and opportunities experienced through the evolution of a British model of "domestic science" to a more North American-oriented model of the discipline and profession of home economics. The result is a university degree rooted in the culture and family systems of Ghana. Set within the larger context of women's education in pre and post-independence Ghana, the book highlights the importance of the interface between the discipline and national development. The challenges of establishing such a program within a traditional university structure are illustrated, as we...
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