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Until about 1990, the higher education sector in Ghana included only a handful of state-owned public universities that offered undergraduate diploma, degree, and postgraduate degree programs. In general, admission to the first level of higher education was open to candidates exiting the secondary education system. Competition for placement into the few available programs of study was keen and many qualified secondary school leavers were denied a university education.
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Afeti, G. (2017). Differentiation within the Postsecondary Education Sector in Ghana. In: Altbach, P.G., Reisberg, L., Wit, H.d. (eds) Responding to Massification. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-083-7_4
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