CEIBS turns to Ghana

Image from WikipediaCEIBS, China's leading business school, has obtained approval to set up a subsidiary in Accra, the capital of Ghana, writes the Financial Times. CEIBS, a project of Shanghai's municipality and the European Union, is part of a larger move of China into Africa.

The move is part of a Ghanaian government initiative to encourage overseas schools and universities to establish faculties in the country in an effort to improve the local population’s skills base. “It’s one area for investment in Ghana these days,” says Josiah Cobbah, associate dean of the business school at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration.

In recent years, 15 new universities that teach business and management, often in conjunction with technology, have sprung up in Ghana as part of a liberalisation of education.