This study examined the importance of polytechnics in Ghana’s development; its management and constraints-especially faculty turnover and how it impacts on sustainable polytechnic education. The sample comprised a total of 65 respondents drawn from six stakeholder groups: former polytechnic rectors, current polytechnic administrators’ current faculty; former polytechnic faculty, students, government officials as well as retired government officials. The study adopted a qualitative method to elicit data. However, the main study was preceded by a pilot study focusing on faculty turnover. Questionnaire informed by instruments used in earlier studies by Klass (2007) and Samuel (2008) were adapted and modified to suit the pilot study. An electronic questionnaire comprising 41 questions with a four (4) point scale (agree, uncertain, disagree and strongly disagree) on turnover and its consequences was hosted at Survey Monkey web site for administration by current polytechnic faculty. The link was emailed to 14 randomly selected current faculty members of seven polytechnics for administration and submission. These provided lead-in themes for the main qualitative study. Data for the main study was collected via interviews involving all six groups. Results indicate that polytechnics are important and contribute significantly to the sustenance of Ghana’s economy. Study further proved that polytechnics were mired in a number of constraints including turnover. The second portion examined the constraints of polytechnics with a focus on faculty turnover, causes and consequences on polytechnic sustenance vis-a-vis Ghana’s economy. This was supported by a semi structured interview schedules generated from the pilot study and administered on six case groups. The results showed a high rate of faculty turnover in polytechnics. Further, findings showed that turnover is caused by multiple factors (individual, institutional and environmental factors) which in turn interact with each other to influence turnover. Also, turnover was found to have impacted negatively on polytechnics, their clientele (students) and the national economy of Ghana. Findings of this study have a number of implications for policy especially higher education policy (polytechnics) management and education as well as some suggested strategies to help incentivize the academic staff and smoothen the management of the polytechnics.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:57:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriani Mello Felix_Dissertacao.pdf: 976089 bytes, checksum: c94038fdabb47bb7ce25e6b0e03a74e0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-20 / This work analyses the historical and discursive conditions of production of curricular reform for High School in Brazil, particularly in Vocational High School Polytechnic. This paper aims at understanding, in the official curricular discourses, how mathematics becomes an important device for conducting subjects via curriculum and public policies addressed by education. This paper discusses the articulations between contextualization, statistical knowledge and mathematics, problematizing its (im)possibilities in such model of curriculum. To do so it was applied Foucault's concept of discursive practices and governmentality. The research used sources from documental analysis with official documents about High School integrated seminar and its Projetos Vivenciais in RS. In order to examine it the author makes some inferences using the concept of polytechnics to approach these projects and their discursive possibilities related to neoliberal governmentality. / Este trabalho analisou as condições históricas e discursivas que possibilitaram as reformas curriculares para o Ensino Médio no Brasil, com um olhar mais atento ao Ensino Médio Politécnico no RS. O trabalho teve o objetivo de compreender, nos discursos curriculares oficiais, como a matemática tornou-se um importante dispositivo na condução dos sujeitos através do currículo e das políticas públicas endereçadas à educação. Estudou-se as articulações entre contextualização, saber estatístico e matemática, problematizando suas (im)possibilidades neste modelo de currículo. Para esta analítica, utilizou-se o conceito de práticas discursivas e governamentalidade em Foucault. O espaço de análise se constituiu dos documentos curriculares para o ensino médio e de sua materialização em Projetos Vivenciais, do seminário integrado no RS. Para tanto, foi realizada inferência ao conceito de politecnia, para abordar estes projetos e suas possibilidades discursivas em relação à governamentalidade neoliberal.

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of determining the possible differential effects of the alternative training patterns of handcrafted textile design students in universities and polytechnics in Nigeria on the scores in courses for their final-year training as well as the type of first employment that students secure after graduation.