Professor Kobina Yankson has appealed to high education institutions to undertake appropriate reforms in order to remain in competitive.
He said globalization compelled such institutions to be innovative in knowledge creation and dissemination in order to continually remain visible and attract the best students and staff.
Profr Yankson, Chairman of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) at 50 Planning Committee, said it was important for these institutions in Ghana to provide quality education that meets the human requirement needs of the global market economy.
He was presenting a paper on Tuesday evening titled "Quality assurance in Higher Education in a globalized era" as part of the UCC at 50 public lecture series at the UCC School of Medical Science auditorium.
He said globalization posed serious challenges such as the development of curricula, students, staff and facilities of higher education institutions.
Prof Yankson appealed to the institutions to make available the right and adequate facilities for easy accessibility, staff to be given the needed materials to help make teaching and learning easier whilst students adopt the appropriate or acceptable attitudes towards schooling.
He said higher education institution should be able to seek solutions to challenges of globalization and make efforts to mitigate them to avoid the situation where students would be rendered uncompetitive and consequently become unattractive on the job market.
Prof. Yankson said it was also imperative for the institutions to formalize and strengthen quality assurance mechanisms and processes in order to constantly monitor, control and improve the quality of their products and services.
He said there should be increased access to higher education through expansion of on and off campus facilities and also build capacity in ICT and use IT as a platform for instruction, research, administrative and other processes, he emphasized.
Professor Domwini Kuupole, Vice-Chancellor of the UCC, appealed to all members of UCC to play their parts well in ensuring its success adding that lecturers should be 'up and doing' to make teaching more interactive for the students to get a better and deeper understanding of their courses.