Affiliation policy rhetoric and reality in the Ghanaian higher education context

Ansah, Francis; Swanzy, Patrick

doi:10.1080/1360080x.2019.1575176

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“…Later, Kumasi College of Technology also gained university status and was renamed as Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ansah & Swanzy, 2019). The University College of Cape…”

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“…Coast was subsequently established in 1962 and initially affiliated with the University of Ghana until 1971 when it was given university status (Ansah & Swanzy, 2019).…”

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“…This institutional affiliation system involves three parties: the mentor, the mentee, and the NAB. While the mentor institution submits an annual report on the mentored institution's activities to the NAB, the NAB also conducts its own annual affiliation barometer to evaluate the status of the mentee institution as part of the accreditation process; however, some universities believe this system is redundant (Ansah & Swanzy, 2019).…”

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“…While there have been many studies conducted on mentoring relationships at the individual level in higher education (Colvin & Ashman, 2010;Darwin & Palmer, 2009), few analyze institutional mentorships. The studies that analyze institutional mentorships in Ghana (Ansah & Swanzy, 2019;Tsevi, 2015;Utuka, 2011;Yakubu, 2015) scrutinize NAB's affiliation system and center on the role of the mentor or the NAB rather than that of the mentee. There is virtually no literature on other forms of institutional mentorships in Ghana and West Africa and on the role of the mentee institution in the mentoring relationship.…”

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Article InfoThis paper compares two institutional mentorships in the West African context: one is an institutional affiliation required by the National Accreditation Board (NAB) between a mentor public university and mentee private university in Ghana; the second one is a university-led mentorship between a mentor private university in Ghana and a mentee private university in Niger. The research questions are the following: How do the two models of institutional mentorship contrast? What is the role of the mentor and mentee in ensuring the effectiveness of institutional mentorship? To investigate these questions, qualitative data was collected through document analysis and interviews of key informants, who were involved in the mentoring relationship across the three institutions. Goleman's (2000) leadership styles theory was applied as the theoretical framework in analyzing the case studies. The NAB institutional affiliation was coercive and created a disempowering and constraining effect upon the mentee, whereas the university-led mentorship displayed an authoritative leadership style and empowered the mentee through the inspirational example of the mentor. The understanding of responsibilities of the mentor and mentee in ensuring effective mentoring was regulations-driven under the NAB affiliation model and values-driven under the university-Article History:

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“…Coast was subsequently established in 1962 and initially affiliated with the University of Ghana until 1971 when it was given university status (Ansah & Swanzy, 2019).…”

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“…While there have been many studies conducted on mentoring relationships at the individual level in higher education(Colvin & Ashman, 2010; Darwin & Palmer, 2009), few analyze institutionalmentorships. The studies that analyze institutional mentorships inGhana(Ansah & Swanzy, 2019; Tsevi, 2015; Utuka, 2011; Yakubu, 2015) scrutinize NAB's affiliation system and center on the role of the mentor or the NAB rather than that of the mentee. There is virtually no literature on other forms of institutional mentorships in Ghana and West Africa and on the role of the mentee institution in the mentoring relationship.…”

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Many, if not most, of my writing comes from experience, as it does for many scholars-either observing situations and events, being among those involved in these, and the many discussions with students and colleagues about the experiences they have gone through in many countries I have visited or worked in. This topic of mentoring and the related role of role modelling initially came to me shortly after doing my doctorate in a mentoring mode with Christopher Hodgkinson in Canada, and my ideas about this were reinforced when I was mentored in informal postdoctoral work with Wolfgang Mommsen in Germany in the 1990s. Since that time, I have mentored some of my doctoral students, particularly in the last few years working with several in the Arabian Gulf. It was time for me to revisit my research and understanding of this topic after going through several years of research trips, guest lecturing and collaborative projects in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, followed by several years in the Gulf learning about the embeddedness of such roles in

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Ghanaian private higher education providers: are they becoming endangered species?

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Affiliation policy rhetoric and reality in the Ghanaian higher education context

Cited by 7 publications

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Institutional Mentorship in West Africa: Comparing Government-Regulated and University-Led Models

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Ghanaian private higher education providers: are they becoming endangered species?

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