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Download full textAnsah, Samuel Kwame; Awere, Eric; Edu-Buandoh, Kobina Badu Micah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Understandably, clients in both the public and the private sectors in Ghanaian construction industry have become increasingly dissatisfied. What they see is unpredictability and under-performance. What they receive is too often of poor quality, late and over-priced. More often contractors enter the construction project focusing on achieving their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Cooperation, Program Administration
Direct linkOwusu-Manu, D.; Edwards, D. J.; Kukah, A. S.; Pärn, E. A.; El-Gohary, H.; Aigbavboa, C. – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
Built environment students graduate with good technical skills but often lack the rudiments of management and leadership skills. Other challenges they face, among others, include interpersonal skills, emotional skills, self-awareness and impulse control. This article presents a case study assessing the emotional intelligence (EI) attributes of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Developing Nations, Physical Environment
Awere, E.; Edu-Buandoh, K. B. M.; Dadzie, D. K.; Aboagye, J. A. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Building Technology graduates from Ghanaian Polytechnics seek employment in the construction industry, yet little information is known as to whether their tertiary education is really related to and meeting the actual needs of their prospective employers in the construction industry. The tracer study was conducted to ascertain the performance of…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Building Trades, Questionnaires, Classification
Acheampong, Philip – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this comparative study was to identify the technical skills and abilities needed by prospective employees of construction industries in Ghana and Nigeria. Potential employees were defined here as recent graduates of construction industry programs with entry-level technical skills. The continuous growth in and expansion of these two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Job Skills, Employment Qualifications
Ayarkwa, J.; Dansoh, Ayirebi; Adinyira, E.; Amoah, P. – Education & Training, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to assess the perception of the Ghanaian construction industry of the performance of entry-level building technology graduates. Also, other non-technical skills or attributes expected from building technology graduates are to be compared with the actual proficiency of the graduates. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Consultants, Construction Industry, Graduates, Program Effectiveness
Ayarkwa, Joshua; Adinyira, Emmanuel; Osei-Asibey, Dickson – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: The industrial training component in a university's curricula adds tremendous value to a degree programme by enhancing the employable skills of graduates. The purpose of this paper is to assess the perception of organisations that have trained construction students from the Department of Building Technology of the Kwame Nkrumah University…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Employees, Construction Industry, Industrial Training
