近日，浙江师范大学教育学院博士生导师蔡连玉教授团队（博士后研究员Geoffrey Bentum-Micah为第一作者）在权威A （Q1）期刊发表题为“Upgrading polytechnics to technical universities in Ghana and its future outcomes: a document review approach”的研究论文。

This study reviews and equates the historical upgrade of Ghana’s polytechnics to technical universities compared to the United Kingdom and South Africa, including its processes as a borrowed educational policy. Furthermore, it critically reviews the policy’s incubation process, the borrowing process, the implementation process and the actual outcome of the policy in action. The study reveals the loopholes as an elusive decision to convert the ex-polytechnics and its managers’ harshly misplaced priorities of mimicking academic universities. Although the conversions proved essential to its core mandate, we argue that the focus was to be given to curriculum, teacher development and infrastructure funding. Improvements in the standing and prestige of Ghana’s technical universities are seen as a conversion consequence. However, maintaining a vocational and technical focus and guaranteeing the necessary resources and facilities for the newly transformed institutions may present difficulties. Finally, the study reveals reflective characteristics of historical happenings in the UK and South Africa compared to Ghana.

Higher Education创刊于1972年，是高等教育研究领域最具国际影响的杂志之一，2022年影响因子5.2，JCR分区Q1。

文章链接：https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-023-01076-y

作者简介

蔡连玉，浙江师范大学教育学院教授，博士生导师，教育改革与发展研究院副院长，华东师范大学高等教育研究所、澳大利亚悉尼大学教育与社会工作学院访问学者。主要研究领域为：高等教育治理、教育数字化治理与教育基本理论。

Geofrey BentumMicah，浙江师范大学教育学院博士后研究员。主要研究领域为：比较高等教育学、高教数字化转型。