Female Enr emale Enrolments in STEM in Higher E olments in STEM in Higher Education: T ducation: Trend Analysis end Analysis from 2003 – 2018: KNUST as a case study
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2020-12
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Tertiary education in Ghana has experienced rapid growth in accessibility and participation.
Ghana has made some positive and impressive progress towards increasing access to education
and narrowing gender gaps at the pre-tertiary education levels. Yet, these developments have not
translated commensurately in higher education level. This study investigates the effectiveness of
the directives and the Vice-Chancellors' initiatives introduced and designed to increase female
students' enrolment at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The
study used enrolment data from KNUST, the university's initiatives and directives on female
enrolments, KNUST recorders, online articles, publications, and ministry of higher education
websites. The authors provide descriptive and critical trend analysis in females' share of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) enrolments in Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology, Kumasi-Ghana, for sixteen years. Results show that the directives and
interventions geared towards the realisation of the increase in numbers of female enrolment have
a positive effect on increasing enrolment of female students at the university. However, the data
shows that the proportion of female students is still low in the Physical Sciences and Engineering
disciplines than males though they outnumber the males in the Health Sciences.
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This article is published by University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2020 and is also available at https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/4327
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