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Ghana is a West African nation with a population of over 33 million (World Bank, 2022).

COL’s work in Ghana is in the areas of Higher Education, Teacher Education, Lifelong Learning for Farmers, Gender Equality, and Skills for Work. Ghana also benefits from programmes offered by COL’s regional centre, the Regional Training and Research Institute for Distance and Open Learning (RETRIDOL). Learners from Ghana participate in COL’s free online courses and benefit from other openly available resources.

Highlights

  •  In December 2025, the Tamale College of Education developed a quality assurance framework for ODL with COL support.
  • The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) developed two sets of quality assurance guidelines and frameworks for accreditation of ODL programmes and institutions in Ghana in November 2025 with COL support.
  • A draft business model report for the establishment of an open university system was developed for GTEC in October 2025 with COL support.
  • GTEC approved a national ODL policy with COL support in August 2025.
  • GARU Presbyterian Agricultural Station and COL have improved the lives of more than 30,000 farming households.
  • Through the Skills Online programme, 13,040 learners from Ghana enrolled in courses 69,741 times, with 22,091 course completions.

Partners

Partnerships are fundamental to COL’s work. Strategic partnerships allow COL to broaden its reach and engage at global, regional and national levels, while implementation partners support COL’s work in communities and institutions across Commonwealth Member States. Partners include multilateral organisations, regional bodies, national governments, government agencies, foundations, civil society organisations, public and private (not-for-profit) institutions and the private sector. COL partnerships assist in improving and extending teaching and learning services to people in the developing Commonwealth.

COL’s partners in Ghana include:

  • Ministry of Education
  • Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training & Entrepreneurial Development
  • Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling
  • Garu Presbyterian Agriculture Station
  • Ghana Library Authority
  • Koforidua Technical University
  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
  • National Teaching Council of Ghana
  • Tamale College of Education
  • Worldreader

Key Contacts

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Vacant

Notable Mention

The Honourable Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, COL Honorary Fellow

Prof Akilagpa Sawyerr, former member of COL Board of Governors

Ms Esi Sutherland-Addy, COL Honorary Fellow and former member of COL Board of Governors

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