Quality Education in Second Cycle Institutions: The Role of the Private Sector

Abstract

The study was an assessment of quality education; the role of the private sector. Questionnaire and interview schedules were used to collect data from 175 respondents in second cycle institutions. SPSS and Microsoft Excel were used to analyze the data. The study discovered varied determinants of quality education for private second cycle institutions; critical of which are well-motivated teachers, availability of instructional materials, effective monitoring and supervision and recognition of individual differences. Private institutions could contribute enormously to quality education through strong partnership between the public and private educational sector. The private second cycle schools are constraint with inadequate infrastructure, inadequate professional teachers, untimely payment of school fees, excessive expectation of parents towards students’ performance and minor interference by parents administratively. Quality education should be tackled comprehensively and incrementally. The study recommends an urgent need for public-private sector partnership for quality education. Private schools should be granted access to the GET fund; and there should be a strong monitoring and evaluation team for quality education from the Ghana Education Service. The study also recommends that, Ministry of Education should chatter a principle, comprehensive and incremental approach to deal with quality education issues in the second cycle education. Finally, the study recommends collaboration between Ghana Education Service and Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (YEA) for regular supply of non-professional graduate teachers to the second cycle institutions.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-9-17

Publication date:March 31^st 2019