Monday, May 18, 2009

Higher Education in Ghana?

Higher education should be made accessible and free to all. Sadly, higher education development in Ghana, unlike other sectors of development, has not kept pace with the ever increasing demand for higher education due to population growth. The increasing demand for higher education has created corruption in higher education admissions, examination malpractices, such as falsification of entry requirements, bribery of admissions officials for the limited spaces that are available.

To read more about the problem of access to higher education (defined as any education that is beyond secondary education) please see the article I located on a Ghana website from 24 April 2009: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=160902