By
Eunice Hilda Ampomah, GNA
Accra, Dec. 10, GNA
– To promote quality assurance in Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs), the
National Accreditation Board (NAB) has instituted measures to review and audit
the qualifications of lecturers in private accredited universities nationwide by
the end of December 2020.
It would also
develop ranking classification and rating systems for TEIs and programmes by
the end of December 2022 and review tutorial colleges accreditation modalities
and instruments by the end of December 2020.
Dr Kingsley Nyarko,
the Executive Secretary of NAB, made this known on Tuesday when the Board
launched its “2019/2023 Strategic Plan” in Accra.
The Board also used
the platform to commission an “Information Resource Centre” to enable staff of
the Board and stakeholders to conduct researches on quality assurance and
accreditation areas within the educational system.
Dr Nyarko said the
vision of the Board as stipulated in the plan was to “guarantee a world-class
quality higher education,” while its mission was to “provide the best basis for
establishing, measuring and improving quality in tertiary education through
accreditation, quality assurance and determining equivalences of
qualifications.”
He said to achieve
the vision and mission, the Board crafted six key strategic thrusts in response
to the identified challenges and threats to enhance quality assurance
frameworks and instruments to promote international standards and best
practices.
He said thrust was
also to develop credential evaluation frameworks and instruments to promote
recognition of qualifications and credit transfers.
Dr Nyarko said there
was the need for the Board to improve institutional support, visibility and
legal frameworks for improved service delivery and compliance and strengthen
Information and Communication Technology infrastructure and facilities to
enhance usability.
He said the fifth
and sixth thrusts for the Board was to develop and retain high calibre and
committed staff that are innovative and globally competitive and as well
improve revenue generation and enforce fiscal discipline to achieve operational
and financial sustainability.
To keep pace in a
dynamic global education environment and meet the demands of stakeholders, Dr
Nyarko said the Board needed to maintain and enhance its financial strength.
He, therefore,
appealed for support from government to grow the revenue of the Board from
existing and alternative sources including global funding, manage its expenses
and implement mechanisms to ensure that the Board got value for money and that
expenditure was aligned with the its strategic objectives.
Dr Mathew
Opoku-Prempeh, the Minister of Education, said even though there was an
Educational Strategic Plan for 2015 to 2030, the development of a new one in
the midst of changes in the Ghanaian educational system, was laudable and
necessary to enable the country to meet the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Minister gave an
assurance that the new strategic plan, would not compromise future educational
plans by government, but would rather; strengthened the various reforms set by
the Ministry to provide robust education for Ghana to compete globally.
He said it was
important for the Board to have a communication framework, coupled with
digitisation of activities, processes and procedures.
Dr Opoku-Prempeh
said he was optimistic that the strategic plan would enhance the effective
execution of duties in the educational system.
Professor Kwame
Boasiako Omane-Antwi, the Vice Rector of the Pentecost University College, and
a member of NAB, advised the Board to be abreast with changes in the
educational system to be able to effectively execute its mandate.
He pledged the
Board’s preparedness to institute appropriate guidelines and regulations to
deal with emerging problems in tertiary education institutions.
GNA
