Examination of globalisation’s clouts on Ghana’s tertiary education policy
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2023
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Policy Futures in Education
Abstract
The paper examined and analysed the extent globalisation and its dimensions impinged Ghana’s
tertiary education policy landscape in global and national historical and contemporary perspectives.
Historical and contemporary policy documents and articles, that help to understand how glob alisation and its antecedents have interwoven and permeated the dynamics underpinning Ghana’s
tertiary education policy, were used as conduits for the analysis. Within the context of structural
adjustment and democratisation juggernauts triggered by the West, neoliberal reforms were
initiated in the early 1990s. They were characterised by the liberalisation of the sector for the
establishment of private tertiary education institutions, creation of buffer agencies to ensure ef fective stakeholder control in policy and quality assurance of those institutions, initiating laissez-faire
financial reforms and incorporating non-governmental financial responsibility. Nonetheless, they
concomitantly spurred the tertiary education institutions to drift towards entrepreneurialism and
innovation through activities such as research, fee policies and collaborations with vital stake holders. Although the reforms were geared towards market, the Ghanaian system of tertiary
education remains a quasi-market system with substantial governmental control
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Research Article
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globalisation, reforms, tertiary education, market, government