A polytechnic by any other name

By Eric Fredua-Kwarteng and Francis Ahia. The government of Ghana is planning to convert the country’s polytechnics into technical universities by September 2016. Each of the 10 administrative regions in Ghana has a polytechnic, making a total of 10 polytechnics that derive their legal framework for operation from the Polytechnics Law of 2007 (Act 745), which replaced the Polytechnic Law of 1992 (PNDC Law 321). More...