Access to undergraduate education is an unresolved burden in Ghana
A qualitative approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11424348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moses Kumi Asamoah (0000-0002-6698-7528, ,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 595-612 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Lifelong Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-1370 • E-ISSN: 1464-519X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02601370.2017.1356880 |
| OpenAlex | W2743280452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 37 |
Higher education is a means by which human capital is mostly developed and awareness is created in people to think of themselves as active citizens willing and able to have influence in public life, and with the critical capacity to weigh evidence before speaking and acting. The rationale behind the paper is to address the low access to higher education in Ghana, and to emphasise the need to deal with the issue, if Ghana wants to maintain its middle-income status and be heading towards a developed country. Therefore, the paper re-examines the challenges of undergraduate education access in Ghana by intentionally selecting some educationists and engaging them in an interview. Financial challenges, infrastructural deficiency and inadequate lecturers are found to be some of the challenges. The contributions of the paper to knowledge include development of educational access conceptual framework. It is recommended that funding arrangements be pursued for students, technologically mediated distance education be effected and more research graduates be produced to augment the teaching capacity base
Economic growth · Economics · Higher education · Human capital · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Unearthing hidden disabilities
Entrepreneurship Education as a Catalyst for Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutions
Perceived economic benefits and costs of online learning
Examination of globalisation’s clouts on Ghana’s tertiary education policy
Mobile learning policy and practice in Africa
Exploring the synergy between emotional intelligence and self-esteem among university students in Ghana
From Education to Democracy?
Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective
Exploring formative assessment as a tool for learning
African Brain Drain and Its Impact on Source Countries
Higher education in Kenya
Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
Intersecting poverty and participation in higher education in Ghana and Tanzania
Mapping Meritocracy
The Equity Challenge in China’s Higher Education Finance Policy
Challenges in accessing higher education
Three dimensions of equity of access to higher education
Higher Educational Cost-Sharing, Dual-Track Tuition Fees, and Higher Educational Access
Conceptions of Equity
Cost Sharing in Higher Education
The Developmental State Experiment in Africa
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Lifelong Learning for Equity and Social Cohesion
The Lived Experience of Oldest-Old Rural Adults
Ghana's education reform 2007
Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research
Some Social Requisites of Democracy
| Citations per year | 0.86 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |