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 Accr...
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Presidential Charter Process In Ghana

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ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL CHARTER

A charter signifies that a university has continuously met excellent educational standards and regulations, and so no longer requires direct supervision. Such institutions will become independent degree-awarding universities once a presidential charter is granted. After awarding credentials, they would cease to be linked with other higher education institutions.

The GTEC will give a presidential charter to the educational body after a thorough evaluation of the school's curriculum, finances, governance, and facilities. This will turn the university into a full-fledged independent degree-granting institution. This means that universities will no longer award degrees through affiliate institutions, as all private colleges must do until they receive a charter. The Presidential Charter recognizes the features, strengths, and influence of universities on higher education in Ghana and abroad.

 

PRESIDENTIAL CHARTER REQUIREMENTS/STEPS

In Ghana, every newly-established university has to operate for a minimum of 10 years under the supervision of relatively older, established universities that will award degrees on the new university’s behalf. Universities that have been mentored for the minimum number of years can then apply for independence; a process which ends with a comprehensive assessment of the institution, its programs, facilities, and finances being presented to the Minister of Education for onward recommendation to the President of Ghana. When an application is approved by the President, he then grants that institution a Charter, which enables it to award its degrees, diplomas, and certificates.

Private tertiary education institution is allowed to operate in Ghana under mentorship, and mentorship arrangement with more experience from older institutions whether Ghana or outside Ghana, which has the power to award its qualification to the graduates of this newly established private tertiary education institution. That Institution is a branch campus of an existing institution somewhere that has the power to award its certificates. When a private institution has operated under mentorship for at least 10 years and considered itself adequate to apply for a presidential charter, that institution would pick a charter application form from the Ghana Tertiary Education website.

A form is a self-evaluation form.  if the institution gives false information about itself and its operations over the period it has existed as a tertiary education institution, it will go against them. After filling the form, submit it and pay the appropriate application fee. When the board evaluates this application and satisfies itself that the institution has filled all relevant sections of the application and that the information the institution has given under each of these sections is adequate for it to decide whether to go ahead with the processing of that application or not. When the board is not satisfied with the completion of the application, the institution is advised to correct or complete the identify section with the needed information. Once the application is deemed complete with adequate information, the board decides to go forward with the process. Board Commission expects will look at the government structure, financial sustainability, and the physical facilities of the institution. It is required that older institutions of the mentorship arrangements that the private institution operated under would also report on the preparedness of this mentored institution to go on its own or have the power to award it certificates qualifications.

Now, all these expected reports will come to the commission together with the independent report prepared on that institution or the applicant's institution by its mentor or mentoring institution.  when the board receives all these reports, the joint committee involving the accreditation committee and the quality assurance committees of the commission will review these reports and gather the appropriate observations and then arrange a meeting with the applicant institution.

They will arrange a visit to the applicant’s institution and have a discussion with the leadership of the institution to confirm for itself, all the provisions that have been made, all the statements, and the claims that have been made in the application. When this visit has been done, a report is generated from the visits and sent back to the institution to confirm those findings. The institution will comment on the observations in this report that the visiting team made together with the report of the visiting and present it before the court. When the commission is satisfied with the application process and the outcome of the reports, the board then makes a recommendation to the president through the Minister of Education for the grant of presidential chatter. Presidential chatter will be granted by the president, at a venue and time appropriate.

 

INDICATORS THE COMMISSION CONSIDERS IN GRANTING PRESIDENTIAL CHARTER

 Critical indicators that the court considers before the grant of the institution.

  1.  that the current institution must have operated in its premises for not less than 10 years. It must have at least had 55% of its full-time staff as full-time staff.
  2. It must have at least had 60% of his staff having terminal degrees,
  3.  it must demonstrate financial capability to go on its own.
  4.  It must also demonstrate an increase in student enrolment for about 10 years or more.
  5. It must demonstrate a very vibrant, effective institutional governance structure.
  6.  It must have a good Staff-student ratio.
  7. It must have succeeded in providing the appropriate academic environments that make students proud over its existing period.
  8. It must demonstrate a good quality assurance system in place within the institution.
  9. And it must also demonstrate a high staff retention rate over the period it has operated.

 

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