National Council for Tertiary Education Annual Report 2014 I Published by National Council for Tertiary Education P O Box MB 28 Accra
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NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORT 2015 National Council for Tertiary Education Annual Report 2014 i Published by National Council for Tertiary Education P O Box MB 28 Accra Office Location Tertiary Education Complex Off the Trinity College Road Bawaleshie, East Legon Accra Tel: + 233 (0) 209989413/209989429 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ncte.edu.gh ii National Council for Tertiary Education Annual Report 2014 CONTENTS Foreword . iv PART ONE: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . 1 PART TWO: PROFILE OF COUNCIL/SECRETARIAT . 2 PART THREE: PROGRAMME DELIVERY . 7 PART FOUR: SPECIAL PROJECTS . 11 PART FIVE: STANDARDS AND NORMS PERFORMANCE INDICATORS . 16 PART SIX: FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE . 19 PART SEVEN: PERFORMANCE REVIEW OF STRATEGIC PLAN (2010–2014) . 24 PART EIGHT: UNAUDITED ACCOUNTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT OF THE SECRETARIAT . 31 PART NINE: CONCLUSION — CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD . 38 APPENDICES . 39 APPENDIX 1: 2014 BUDGET DISTRIBUTION FOR THE TERTIARY EDUCATION . 39 APPENDIX 2: SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN GHANA . 42 APPENDIX 3: LIST OF PUBLIC TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN GHANA 45 APPENDIX 4: LIST OF SECRETARIAT STAFF . 47 APPENDIX 5: ORGANOGRAM OF THE SECRETARIAT . 49 National Council for Tertiary Education Annual Report 2014 iii FOREWORD The National Council for Tertiary Education Corporation of New York to support capacity (NCTE) continues to make significant building of senior management staff of universities contributions towards the development of tertiary in Ghana and Nigeria. Other important projects education in Ghana. The Council’s aim is that that the Council helped to facilitate during the tertiary education assumes its role as a catalyst year were the Open Universities Ghana (OUsG) and resource base for national growth and and the Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) development. Projects. The OUsG Project is expected to be In 2015, the NCTE performed creditably in carried out as a consultancy activity by the OU spite of the challenges such as funding, quality (UK) International Development Office. Its aims assurance, relevance and governance confronting are to define the functions, operations, the sector. The Council undertook a number of management and governance of an agency that will act to support public and private higher education activities and policy initiatives towards institutions to expand and enhance the quality of improving education service delivery, increasing their distance learning and online provision at equitable access to tertiary education, improving all levels. The Africa Centres of Excellence quality of teaching and learning and improving (ACE) Project with the Association of African management and governance of tertiary education Universities and the International Development institutions. The major activities in 2015 which Association (World Bank/IDA) is to support the are covered in this Report include: actions on the development of Centres of Excellence in Africa Government’s plan to convert the polytechnics to to improve research and development as technical universities to function as practice knowledge economy indicators of the continent. oriented teaching universities of applied sciences It also seeks to strengthen the continent’s and technology with a focus on skills development technological leadership as well as foster cross- with strong links with industry and business; the border research and academic collaborations. absorption of five private colleges of education 2016 will bring new challenges. The as public institutions; the development of proposed National Commission for Tertiary guidelines for siting of new universities and Education Law should come into force during the university colleges; cross-border education; and year to strengthen Council’s mandate, oversight quality assurance. responsibility, regulatory and monitoring roles Council also facilitated special projects that over the entire tertiary education sector. The had external support such as: the Transforming existing NCTE Strategic Plan which is being Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) Project reviewed should also be ready in 2016 to help with the UK Department of International the Council uncover new ways to improve its Development, a four-year Programme to support performance as well as respond effectively to the implementation of the new policy framework opportunities, challenges and new trends in the for Pre-Tertiary Teacher Professional sector. Development and Management in Ghana; and Phase 2 of the Senior Academic Leadership PROFESSOR CNB TAGOE Training (SALT) Programme with the Carnegie CHAIRMAN, NCTE iv National Council for Tertiary Education Annual Report 2014 PART ONE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The year 2015 was eventful with continuation of education. The year saw the absorption of five the new policy interventions and programmes in private colleges of education as public institutions the tertiary sector which started in 2014and which would also be catered for under the T-TEL introduction of new ones to address some of the project, among other scheme of things. To challenges of the sector. operationalise the establishment of the Open Of significance was the setting up of expert University concept in Ghana, an Agreement has panels to assess the capacity of the ten been signed between the National Council for polytechnics based on set criteria for possible Tertiary Education and Open University, UK conversion to technical universities. This led to following stakeholders’ consultation meetings. the recommendation for conversion of six In terms of students enrolment there has been polytechnics for immediate conversion pending in all, 4.84% increase over the last year figure promulgation of a Technical Universities Act. The with 333,817 (for the public universities) and rest of the polytechnics are to be assisted to 318,433 (for the polytechnics) out of which 40% address their deficiencies to meet the criteria and and 39% of enrolment in public universities and be converted after they are re-assessed. polytechnics were in the science-related Guidelines were also developed for siting of new programmes respectively as against the national universities and university colleges and cross- standard norm of 60:40 for science and humanity border education to ensure some level of equitable programmes. Government continued to be the main geographical visibility of tertiary institutions source of funding of tertiary education across the country and quality assurance contributing 59% (including funds from the Ghana respectively. In addition an expert committee was Education Trust Fund (GETFund and earmarked set up to draw up a national vision and plan for Annual Budget Funding Amount (ABFA)). tertiary education that will fix into a 40-year Internally Generated Fund (IGF) of the institutions national development policy agenda. and Donor support accounted for 39% and 2% To ensure efficient management of the respectively. institutions, a second phase of the Senior Council in 2016 will develop a new strategic Academic Leadership Training Programme plan following the end of its 2010-2014 Strategic (SALT) begun with sponsorship from the Carnegie Plan to address challenges of funding, equitable Corporation of New York, USA; spanning January, access, quality, relevance and good governance 2015 to December, 2016 targeted at 300 university confronting the tertiary sector. It is the hope of council members and 210 heads of departments the Council that timely passage of the Tertiary of public and private universities. Training of Education Commission Bill and subsequent principals and vice-principals of colleges of promulgation of an Act thereto, will strengthen education under the Transforming Teacher its mandate and regulatory and monitoring role Education and Learning (T-TEL) project aimed over the tertiary sector more effectively. Council at supporting pre-tertiary teacher professional has engaged a consultant to advise on the development, management and promoting teaching restructuring of its Secretariat to position it in its of mathematics, English language and science, expanded roles and responsibilities under the new was organised for the 38 public colleges of dispensation. National Council for Tertiary Education Annual Report 2015 1 PART TWO PROFILE OF COUNCIL/SECRETARIAT This part contains the remit of Council, 2. Be guided by the needs and priorities composition and committees of Council, of tertiary education institutions institutions under the Council and key Governing which it serves, providing them with Boards of other institutions on which Council is reliable information, appropriately represented. It also provides information on the targeted resource support and Secretariat exposing them to global best practices. Remit of Council 3. Ensure that tertiary education assumes its rightful role as a catalyst The National Council for Tertiary Education and resource base for national growth (NCTE) was established by NCTE Act 1993, (Act and development. 454). The Council was established to oversee the proper administration of tertiary education in 4. Develop norms and standards that Ghana and to serve as the supervisory and drive world-class research, teaching regulatory body that advises the Minister and skills acquisition. responsible for education on policies relating to 5. Mediate a strategic balance between tertiary education. Its remit relates to the the differing priorities of our development of tertiary education institutions in stakeholders (Government, tertiary