CONVERTING POLYTECHNICS INTO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA ISSUES TO ADDRESS
CONVERTING POLYTECHNICS INTO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA ISSUES TO ADDRESS
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2014-05-05
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Amedorme K, Sherry
Agbezudor,Kowu
Sakyiama K, Frederick
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International Journal of Education and Research
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Ghana has been grappling with unemployment for some time now especially among the tertiary school
graduates. One problem contributing to this is the lack of requisite practical and job oriented training in the
tertiary schools. This problem has called for the entrenchment of polytechnic education so that graduates
can acquire self- employable skills before leaving school. But the polytechnics in Ghana has not been able to
achieve this target fully since they are confronted with a lot of problems including poor and inadequate
machines and equipment to train students, lack of qualified lecturers, ill-defined academic progression and
career advancement pathways, as well as unfair salary and remuneration packages for lecturers. Others are
poor infrastructural development and facilities, societal attitude towards polytechnics and poor funding.
This paper discusses and analyses the problems in the polytechnics education in Ghana and the attempt by
Ghanagovernment to change the polytechnics to technical universities and come out with some
recommendations
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1Department of Electrical and Automotive Technology, University of Education, Winneba -Kumasi Email: smedorme@yahoo.com 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana Email: agbezudor@yahoo.com 3Department of Mechanical Engineering, Accra Polytechnic, P.O. Box 561 Accra Frederick.kumi@yahoo.com