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    An empirical analysis of household formal education expenditure in Ghana
    (Cogent, 2024-12-31) Addai, Isaac
    Using data from the latest 2017 Ghana Living Standards Survey Round Seven, this paper explores variables affecting household spending on education using the OLS model. The results showed that in the 12 months preceding the survey, household in the southern regions of Ghana increased their education spending on all the three types of the education categories namely; basic, secondary and post-secondary, and tertiary education, and established that the average annual household basic education expen diture accounts for 17.7 percent of the total annual household income and taking into account household undefined education expenditure, 13.5 of a percentage point is spent more on household basic education. The average annual household secondary and post- secondary education expenditure accounts for 5.8 percent of the total annual household income. Accounting for household undefined education expenditure, 22 percent of a percentage point is spent more on household secondary and post-secondary educa tion and average annual household tertiary education expenditure accounted for 3.8% of the total annual household income. Weighing undetermined spending on education by household, 6.3 percent of a percentage point is spent on household tertiary education. Household expenditure on tertiary education is the lowest of all the education cate gories’ expenditure.
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    Annual Spending on Formal Education Among Households in the Ashanti Region of Ghana: A Ghana Living Standards Survey Seven Investigation
    (Elsevier, 2022-01-01) Addai, Isaac
    This study uses a Tobit model to analyse socio-economic regional variables affecting households expenditure on education from data collected from the seventh round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey (GLSS VII) in 2017. The results showed that households in the Ashanti region increased their spending on education across all three categories of education covered by the data, with spending on basic education accounting for 57.1 percent of total household spending on education. Female heads of household and family size have a positive impact on households’ annual expenditure on education. This study could help stakeholders involved in the development of the education sector in the Ashanti region to devise better strategies, especially in the face of shrinking public budgets for education, by recognizing the contributions of households as key actors in investing in education in the Ashanti Region. At the policy level, the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council must act to ensure that households do not spend more than half of their total household spending on education for basic education.
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    Performance and Efficiency Analysis of Public Polytechnic Institutions in the Academic Year of Transition to Technical Universities in Ghana
    (Elsevier, 2024) Addai, Isaac
    Purpose: The paper investigates the production and efficiency of 10 public polytechnic institutions multi-production in their transition to public technical universities in the 2015-2016 academic year in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a linear programming model, is applied to study the relative multi-production efficiency of the polytechnic institutions. Findings – The paper established that 50% of the public polytechnic institutions must continue to expand the enrolment of students into their programmes once they have transitioned into technical universities, since they enjoy economies of scale in their multi-productions and there are potential gains through efficiency. Research limitations – The research findings are stated with caution, given the small average size of public polytechnics in terms of Full-Time Equivalence student numbers. Practical implication – Matching inputs and outputs data for polytechnic institutions as higher education institutions (HEIs) to evaluate their efficiency and to encourage benchmarking as a means of improving performance in the academic year transiting them into public technical universities and beyond in Ghana, is thus welcome and unique and responds appropriately to the AU Agenda 2063 calls for evaluating the efficiency of higher education institutions on the continent. Social implication- The paper addressed a significant gap in the current public higher education literature in Ghana. Originality – To the author's knowledge, this is the first study using original data allowing analysis of multi-product efficiency in the 10 public polytechnic institutions in Ghana before their transition to public technical universities.
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    The Predicaments of Non-Residential Students in Ghanaian Institutions of Higher Education: A Micro-Level Empirical Evidence
    (IISTE. No 1 Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR, 2015) Addai, Isaac
    This paper in the field of capacity building and students’ affairs used the external survey assessment techniques of the probit model to examine the predicaments of non-resident students of the College of Technology Education, University of Education, Winneba. Considering the very limited residential facilities and the growing demand for tertiary education, being a tertiary residential student is gradually becoming a mirage in most Ghanaian public universities. This paper argued that the College of Technology Education, either through direct provision or indirectly through private providers, should take all steps to ensure that future non-residential student housing projects are conceived as an integral part of the academic community by taking direct and pragmatic steps to mitigate against the difficulties and problems non-resident students encounter at their various places of residence.