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General News of Monday, June 17, 2019
Source: ghanaiantimes.com.gh
2019-06-17
Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh
Education Minister Matthew Opoku Prempeh refuted claims that the government was seeking to control the management of the country's universities through higher education reforms.
According to him, the very idea of the reforms was to provide a comprehensive, coherent, well-articulated and comprehensive policy framework for the country's higher education sector and had nothing to do with government control.
He added that the policy framework, in addition to providing a comprehensive framework for management, would also ensure that higher education responds effectively to the needs of the "learning society and the knowledge-based economy" to which aspire the country.
"The government has no plans and has not considered tinkering with the management of higher education in the country," he said.
Dr. Prempeh revealed it at a national forum on higher education reforms held in Accra on Friday.
The forum, organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Information in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, was part of a series of activities aimed at raising public awareness of higher education policy and the implications of education. legislative and institutional reform of the TEP.
It was also a matter of discussing the rationale for the Public Universities Bill that had been submitted to Parliament for consideration.
Dr. Prempeh stated that the reforms took into account the need for a comprehensive policy framework, as there was no single document providing a coherent and comprehensive policy framework for the management of higher education. in the country.
He added that although the country's higher education institutions had grown rapidly in recent decades in response to the growing demand for higher education, this growth had been largely sporadic and random, guided by isolated policies and fragmented interventions.
In response to this, he explained that it was necessary to have a comprehensive, coherent, well-articulated and comprehensive policy framework to effectively address the learning needs of the public.
Dr. Prempeh stated that the holistic TEP was an opportunity to set clear guidelines for the ultimate structure, planning, development, regulation, functioning, overall governance and accountability of the higher education system into a only place.
He stated that the structure of the TEP should address governance and management, equity and access, quality and relevance, funding and cross-cutting issues, all focused on the improvement of the learning environment.
The Minister therefore appealed to all stakeholders to contribute and support the TEP to ensure that the management of higher education in the country is standardized to correspond to best practices. international.
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