Promotion of academic scholarship and entrepreneurship through the writing and publishing of syllabi-based course textbooks for polytechnics in Ghana

摘要

Quality education is the bedrock on which a country's developmental agenda rests. Its delivery requires several resources but importantly availability of trained staff and the requisite teaching materials needed to facilitate the impartation of knowledge. The study appraised three suggested projects namely: Project A, Subcontracting Printing of Textbooks; Project B, owing a Printing Press together with printing of Textbooks; Project C, owing Printing Press and Bookshop together with Printing of Textbooks, on the need for writing of syllabi-based course textbooks by academics as a way of promoting scholarship through entrepreneurship using Accra Polytechnic in Ghana as a case study. Cost estimates used in the projects were done using the Ball pack Technique NPV method with selected discount factor of 28% and 32% were used rating the three projects in terms of viability and profitability. The analysis revealed that all the projects were viable and profitable as well as enhance promotion of research, scholarship among the academia, facilitate the delivery of quality education as well as income generation for staff and the Institution. Projects B, C and A ranked profitable in the order 1st to 3rd from the NPV analysis.