How Tertiary Education Institutions Get Accredited in Ghana

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ABOUT ACCREDITATION

Accreditation is a self-assessment procedure that allows institutions to demonstrate that they are meeting a set of research-based performance requirements. The standards take a holistic approach to the institution, augmenting student-testing data to create a full picture of a school's performance and charting a purposeful and realistic path for continual growth. Accreditation helps tertiary institutions in the following ways.

1. Assists you and your colleagues in setting and achieving goals, developing a strategy plan, and promoting employee development, among other things.

2. Instils pride in employees' work and creates possibilities for professional growth.

3. Form parent, teacher, and administrative coalitions and brings together disparate groups to provide the greatest potential outcomes for your students.

4. Gives your Institution a leg up on parents who want their children to attend a high-achieving school.

 

Starting Accreditation Application

Accreditation is one of the major functions of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission mandated by law 744 to credit institutions and the programs for tertiary education.

To get accredited in Ghana as a tertiary education institution, a prospective institution must,

First write to the Ghana tertiary education commission, declaring its intention to run teacher design programs in Ghana to get established as a tertiary education institution.

That letter of intent would spell out the vision and mission of the institution and also give an idea of the type of program the institution would like to run. The prospective institution will outline at least three names that it would like to use as an institution. The reason for indicating a proposed name of the institution is that not every name is acceptable by the commission.

The commission will screen the name that the institution wants to use and approve or disapprove it based on its search criteria. The name of an institution is as important as the institution itself. The name that sounds deceptive, for example, might not be accepted and there may be a change in the proposed name.

 Now, once the name is approved, the prospective institution is then free to approach the registered general department of Ghana to register the name of the institution as a legal business entity. Once the name is approved, the institution can write to the commission to have an inspection of the place it intends to operate from. such a place could be bare land or it could be some structures or physical facility acquired for the purpose or yet to be acquired for the purpose. This is a site clearance exercise So when the commission visits the place and realizes that the place is suitable for a tertiary educational institution, then the place is cleared for the process to continue. If anybody has a problem with the place cited for their proposed institution, then the institution is advised to find a new location.

If their physical facilities are involved, the commission will have a cursory look at the structures and see the appropriateness for potentials. At this stage, the engineering details of the building are not taken but just a cursory look.

And the reason why the commission would like to advise institutions about facility suitability is to avoid waste of money in putting up structures at the wrong place. So, at the initial stages, if anybody sees these structures and realizes that they are not suitable for the intended tertiary institution, we advise finding a new location that will enable the institution to save cost. When the site is accepted, the institution is encouraged to move forward with the process.

2. The next process is the authorization stage. Authorization encourages you to continue to mobilize resources, for the establishment of the intended institution and these resources include both human material and financial. Once the site is cleared and an institution picks an authorization form from the commission; the authorization form attempts to establish the ownership of the proposed institution. it also wants to get an idea of how the institution wants to run in Ghana. At this stage, not much detail is asked but information that is considered adequate to establish the intention behind the establishment of the school is enough for the commission. once that application is filled and sent to the commission, an appropriate fee is paid, then the institution is invited to the premises of the Ghana tertiary education commission to meet the institutional business committee of the board.

At this point, an engagement is established and the institutional business committee which is a sub-committee of the board interrogates the intention behind the establishment of the institution. A discussion will be held and one’s intention is seeming to be okay with the commission, authorization is granted which is a certificate. Once authorization is passed, that means that the site is cleared, the institution can continue to mobilize resources including putting up physical structures, doing any form of renovation, opening bank account, and making import appropriate for the establishment of the institution. When the physical facilities are in place, the following authorization and adequate human resources have been secure.

 

SECTIONS OF THE ACCREDITATION FORM

A prospective institution that will fill the institutional accreditation form should know that the form is in four sections.

The first session is general information on the institution that explores more on what the governance structure of the institution would look like. Together with the appropriate policies that the institution seeks to operate with.

The second section looks at the financial sustainability or evaluates the financial sustainability of the proposed institution.

The third section looks at the physical structures of the institution. And here is looking at the engineering appropriateness of infrastructures and adequacy of the space and also of furniture and with whatever equipment that is required for the running of the institution.

The last part of this instrument looks at sources of information that the institution is going to use to run and here we are talking about library facilities. So, once the institution completes these forms, and submits them to the commission, expects are constituted to look at these various sections of forms. And when these sections have been evaluated and found adequate by the commission, the institution is granted accreditation.

 However, this institutional accreditation will not give a certificate to the institution unless the institution has at least one program ready to run, because the commission believes that tertiary education institutions are set up to run programs. So, if your institution is set to go, and the program is not ready to run, it means that you are not ready. But when the institution has a program ready to run, then institutional accreditation is needed. so usually the first institutional accreditation is granted together with at least one program to run. So, when everything is settled, the institution is encouraged to put in a program accreditation application.

 

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