Community College Adaptation in Ghana: A Perspective Analysis

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Author(s): Fred K. Boateng (University of Ghana, Ghana)and Kingsley Nyarko (University of Ghana, Ghana)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 13
Source title: Global Adaptations of Community College Infrastructure
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Uttam Gaulee (Morgan State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5861-3.ch011

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference

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Community colleges are institutions dedicated to the mission of providing skilled manpower and labor in technical and vocational areas. There are many community college models in the world. In Ghana, polytechnics and technical institutes are adapted models of community colleges. The objective of this chapter is to examine the polytechnic system as practiced in Ghana using the American community college system as a perspective. Community colleges with their provenance in the early 20th century have undergone vicissitudes in their bid to carry out their functions. The polytechnics have also experienced evolving historical circumstances as second cycle technical institutes, then upgraded to tertiary education institutions, and then recently converted to technical universities. In spite of all these developments, the technical universities are believed to be inferior to the traditional public universities.

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