George Oduro

Biography

Professor George Kweku Toku Oduro is a Professor in Educational Leadership at the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration, a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana. Prof. Oduro holds a PhD in Educational Leadership, an MPhil in Education (School Development), both from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a B.Ed in Educational Foundations from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Aside these, Prof. Oduro holds professional certificates in ‘Managing Higher Education’ from the Galilee International Management Institute, Israel and also in ‘Leadership and Development’ from the University of Sydney, Australia. Prof. Oduro started his career as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Educational Foundations, UCC in 1995. In 1998, he moved to IEPA as an Assistant Lecturer and has risen through the ranks to become a Professor since 2017.

From 2008 to 2012, Prof. Oduro was the Director at IEPA steering the affairs of the Institute to build capacity of educational planners, managers and leaders in Ghana. At the international level, Prof Oduro has been a Course Instructor on the Commonwealth Education Trust’s Cousera online Platform Programme on Foundations of Teaching for Learning and an African Region Training Facilitator for the British Council Connecting Classroom Leadership programme. Until 2018, he was the Local Director for the Cambridge -Ghana Leadership for Learning programme. In 2019 (Jan. and Feb.) Prof. Oduro was a Visiting Scholar of the Global Outreach Programme of the Auburn University, Alabama. Prof. Oduro loves research and has led as well as collaborated with like-minded colleagues on numerous researches in the areas Educational Leadership, Educational Planning and Educational administration and management.