Assessment of Physical Facilities and Quality Assurance Practices: A Comparative Study of Takoradi and Cape Coast Technical Universities

Abstract

The study sought to assess the extent to which quality assurance practices of Takoradi and Cape Coast Technical Universities in Ghana capture physical facilities as a way to achieve an enhanced quality. The study employed the quantitative approach of data collection to establish how quality assurance practices of Takoradi and Cape Coast Technical Universities captured physical facilities as a driver of an enhanced quality, and make a comparative evaluation between the two technical universities. The researcher employed simple random sampling and stratified sampling technique in selecting a total sample size of 210 lecturers as lecturers for Cape Coast and Takoradi Technical Universities and 380 respondents were selected as respondents for students for both Cape Coast and Takoradi Technical Universities. A questionnaire personally structured by the researcher was used to collect data. Descriptive statistics (means and standard deviation) was used to analyze the data. The findings reveal that some of the physical facilities in the Cape Coast and Takoradi Technical Universities were not covered by regular and routine quality assurance. Owing to this, there are some difficulties that come with teaching and learning in the two Technical Universities. It is therefore recommended that stakeholders in the two Technical Universities must as a matter of urgency address the inadequate physical facilities issues that overwhelm the Technical Universities in order to meet the standard that they have been raised to and also those that are not disability friendly must be addressed.