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The KNUST Department of Planning (DOP) is one of the academic departments at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. It is under the KNUST College of Architecture and Planning. The department offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the award of a degree. It is the only institution in Ghana professionally recognized by its government to train personnel to promote, coordinate and manage development at the national and sub-national levels. ==History== Planning education in Ghana began in 1958 with the establishment of a planning programme in the School of Architecture, Planning and Building of the Kumasi College of Arts, Science and Technology. The programme prepared students for the intermediate examinations of the Town Planning Institute of Great Britain. After passing the intermediate examination, students were sent to universities in Great Britain to obtain full professional qualifications. In 1961, the United Nations assisted the Government of Ghana to establish an Institute for Community Planning on the Campus of Kumasi College of Arts, Science and Technology. The objective of the institute was to train and educate planners at the sub-professional level. Students who completed the two-year programme were awarded Diplomas of the Institute. It had an annual intake of 20 students. In 1963, the Institute for Community Planning was absorbed by the newly created Faculty of Architecture of the Kumasi College, whose status had been raised a year earlier to that of a university. The duration of the diploma programme was extended to three years by the faculty. The programme was discontinued in 1977 because applicants for the programme tended to have the same qualification as those admitted to the degree course. Within the first decade, the faculty instituted a new programme leading to a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree in Design in the new Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The programme permitted graduates to pursue postgraduate degrees in Architecture, Planning or Building Technologies, but the idea of a combined first degree for all three fields was not very successful because most of the graduating students opted for architecture, the more lucrative practice. As a result, separate undergraduate degrees in the three professional fields were instituted in 1969 with a first year programme structured for all the disciplines. A B.Sc. Planning Degree Programme was commenced that year. After a decade, the M.Sc. DEPP Programme became competitive to the point that the Academic Board approved a "sandwich" version of the programme for those who were not able to enroll as regular students. The sandwich version of the programme increased the number of graduates who could be trained in Development Policy and planning; and assisted potential students who might not be able to leave their jobs for two continuous years to pursue graduate education in the programme; introduced the first self finance graduate Programme in the Department of Planning; and accelerated the process of graduating students to fill the gap between development policy and development planning in Ghana. In 1985, the department established a joint postgraduate programme in Development Planning and Managementin collaboration with the Department of Spatial Planning, University of Dortmund in Germany. Codenamed SPRING (“Spatial Planning for Regions in Growing Economies”), the two-year programme initially required international attendance, with the first year spent at Dortmund and the second in Ghana. In 2003, this changed so that the entire two years were served in Ghana. An average of 10 students per year, drawn from all over Africa, participate in the programme. The 1990s saw considerable restructuring. First, in the 1994/1995 academic year, the new modified Master of Science (M.Sc.) Programme in Regional Development Planning was launched. Created in 1964, the programme had been suspended in 1984 to permit reorganization. 1997 saw the restructuring of the M. Phil. Programme in Development Studies, which had been established in 1980. Created to provide opportunity for candidates graduating from the B.Sc. Planning Degree Programme, the programme was enlarged to give opportunity to candidates with knowledge in development planning related sciences and disciplines. As a result, two new M.Phil Programmes were created: M. Phil in Planning and M. Phil in Development Studies. At the same time, two streams of PhD Programmes were established: the Ph.D in Planning and Ph.D in Development Studies. The following year, another international collaboration in learning and research came into fruition when an agreement was reached between the Department of Human Settlements; the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DANIDA, concerning DANIDA’s support of a research assistant to a project at the Department. The project, “Community Initiatives and Democratization of Planning Practice in Ghana”, dubbed ENRECA Project has since been offering support to the MPhil Planning Programme. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KNUST Department of Planning」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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