PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY, GHANA

(PUG)

ASANTE AKYEM CAMPUS

FACULTY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
MIDWIFERY FIRST YEAR

COMPUTER APPLICATION SKILLS I

(PIC 107)

MID-SEMESTER EXAMINATION

PROGRAM OF STUDY: - BSc MIDWIFERY

STUDENT’S NAME: - KUMAH ABIGAIL AMA
INDEX NO: - AS4538/22
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Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENT...........................i
CHAPTER ONE......................................1
POLICY BASIS.....................................................................................................................................1
Education Sector SWOT Analysis...................................................................................................1
Situation Analysis...........................................................................................................................1
Policy Goals....................................................................................................................................1
The Systems...................................................................................................................................1

CHAPTER TWO.....................................2
CHALLENGES IN THE SECTOR.............................................................................................................2
Challenges on Quality....................................................................................................................2
Information Systems (IS)................................................................................................................2
Information Technology (IT)..........................................................................................................2

CHAPTER THREE................................3
EDUCATION GUIDE............................................................................................................................3
Ghana Educational Ladder.............................................................................................................3
Time Table.....................................................................................................................................3

CHAPTER FOUR...................................4
REFERENCES......................................................................................................................................4

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 CHAPTER ONE
POLICY BASIS
Education Sector SWOT Analysis

Key Factor STRENGTHS OPPORTUNITIES

Access to and General increase in physical access Transform high enrolments into high
increased number of pre-school, completion rates
Participation in primary, JSS and SSS schools.

Education and Training

Quality of Teaching and Distance Education programmes to Use more effectively ICT to promote
provide further professional access to quality education at all
Learning training for teachers in service
Levels

Educational Planning and The MTEF process is well Extend these relationships towards
Management established and working well at community involvement in the
central levels. operation,

Management and financing of schools.

Situation Analysis
The October 2002 Education Sector Review, (ESR), provides an account of recent education
sector performance. Some of the main findings of the ESR have been incorporated within, an
Education Sector “SWOT Analysis” (Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunity-Threats], in which
strengths are matched against opportunities and weaknesses interpreted in terms of possible
threats.
Policy Goals
 Increase access to and participation in educational and training
 Improve quality of teaching and learning for enhanced pupil/student achievement
 Extend and Improve technical and vocational education and training
The Systems
It is a group of interrelated components working together towards a common goal by
accepting inputs and producing outputs in an organized transformation process

Areas of Focus
1) EQUITABLE ACCESS TO EDUCATION
1) Pre-school education
2) Access and participation in education and training
2) QUALITY OF EDUCATION
a) Academic and research programmes
b) Health and environment in schools and institutions

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3) EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT
 Educational planning and management

CHAPTER TWO
CHALLENGES IN THE SECTOR
Despite the substantial progress that has been made over the years in providing access to
education, the nation continues to grapple with serious challenges on quality of education.

Challenges on Quality

There is also the in the country. To has to be given

issue of teacher ensure effective and greater attention.
training and optimum utilization The challenge is
development. The of teachers, it is how to balance the
most deprived areas also important to need for such
lack teachers while have accurate data support and
at the same time and statistics on participation from
there is some over- teacher availability the private sector
concentration of and deployment. against the needs of
teachers in the The policy to the poor in society
urban’s areas. The encourage and who may not be
teacher deployment mobilize non-state able to afford the
issue has become resources from the fees charged by the
critical to private sector to private institutions.
successful support education
education delivery sector development

Information Systems (IS)

A n Information System is a framework in which data is collected, processed, controlled

and managed through stages to provide information to users.
A set of interrelated components that collect (or retrieved), process, store and distribute
Information to support decision making and control in the organization.

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 Information Technology (IT)
It is defined as the collection of
computing systems used by an
organization (Turban et al., 2008. It
makes reference to a powerful
collection of elements, which include
computer hardware, software,
telecommunication networks, and
related technologies’

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EDUCATION GUIDE
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47(6), 1155 – 1191. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00880.x

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