International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

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Globally, governments are educating their people by increasing student intake into universities through distance education. This approach of increasing access to universities has the potential of increasing the number of students in universities, including females. In the 2007/2008 academic year, out of a total of 906 students enrolled in the University of Ghana Distance Education (UG-DE) programme to pursue undergraduate degree courses, only 270 were females. In the 2011/2012 academic year, however, out of a total of 8,163 students enrolled, 2,938 were females, and 5,225 were males putting the female students’ enrolled figure more than half the number of male students admitted. This exploratory study examined the implications of increasing female student enrolment on the UG-DE programmes for their families’ well-being. Views were solicited from 30 female students through semi-structured interviews. Female students held the view that their education would impact positively on their children’s education, health status and future prospects. It recommends that the University of Ghana should expedite work on the re-introduction of the access courses to encourage more female enrollment into undergraduate degree programmes through UG-DE to engender family well-being.

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This paper examines the usefulness of open systems theory in Adult Education (AE) organisations. Attention is placed on SCDE. AE organisations, by virtue of the provision of education to the critical mass of people, make them useful to the development of countries. Their usefulness, however, is felt when they render their services effectively to the people. This paper which is a library research has noted that inadequate funding, lack of effective communication and lack of partnership with the wider society has led to failings of some AE organisations. Devising better means of securing adequate funds for programming and management is the way to go. The SCDE should regularly engage in effective communication and partner with the various publics in implementing her programmes. This will ensure the maximization of success in her programmes. Needs assessment should also be made central in SCDE programmes. It concludes that the SCDE should exhibit a high degree of creativity in resource mobilisation toward programming. This is one surest way of ensuring that the SCDE implement overarching educational programmes that seeks to build quality human capital for Ghana’s development.

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