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Expanding the Horizon of Education: The Case of Presidents's Special Initiative on Distance Learning, Ghana
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Abstract
The paper presents the experiences of the President’s Special Initiative on Distance Learning
(PSI-DL) in providing distance education at the pre-tertiary level as an alternative means of
expanding access to education in Ghana. The Ghana Government has realised the need to find
alternative means of responding to the educational needs of her people. The PSI-DL was
therefore established in April, 2002 to co-ordinate and make operational in Ghana alternative
models of education to complement Government’s efforts of ensuring that Ghana attains the
target of “Education for All” by 2015. PSI-DL provides television lessons aimed at effectively
bridging the educational gap between the well endowed and the poorly endowed schools
especially in the rural areas and providing the youth needing remedial tuition the opportunity to
improve upon their grades in English, Mathematics and Science. The paper also highlights PSIDL
open schooling in technical and vocational education and training aimed at providing learners
with livelihood skills and the prisons project that targets prison inmates interested in acquiring
skills vital for re-integration into society upon their release. In the implementation of all these
programmes, PSI-DL has always aspired to be a quality ODL provider as reflected in the internal
and external quality assurance initiatives presented in the paper. // Paper ID 97
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Ghana
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Africa
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2008
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)