The Future of Education

Capacities building training programmes are meant to sustain and develop the future operations of institutions. However, some academics and administrators in higher education have argued that their work place environments do not promote proper transfer of competencies acquired from such training programmes. This study sought to explore the extent to which competences gained from capacity building training programmes influence the perceived post-training work practices of academics and administrators. Data through survey instrument and structured interview from 41 respondents and participants respectively made of 25 academics and 16 administrators were analysed from four Technical Universities in Ghana. All respondents and participants had earlier on participated in a middle level leadership and management capacity building project. The study revealed differences in the levels of perceived relevance of capacity training programmes of academics. Their competencies were largely shelved because; the institutions were deficient in some resources that were needed to support their post training implementations. This study recommended that management of Technical Universities should tease out how returnee participants from trainings could use their competencies more sustainably and sufficiently.

Keywords: Academics, administrators, Capacity building, sustain, Technical Universities;