WEB:https://jackson.edu.gh/
Phone: +233 (0)54 010 4949, +233 (0)26 816 2362
Ghana

Description

Jackson Educational Complex (JEC) is an educational institution with the Jackson College of Education as a department. The College was established in  2009 as the first Private College of Education to run a 3 year Diploma Programme in Basic Education through Distance Learning.  

It is accredited by the National Accreditation Board (NAB) of Ghana and affiliated to the University of Winneba (UEW).

VISION

JEC aspires to be a leading private University College of Education in the provision of quality and affordable higher education through Distance Learning.

MISSION

To provide higher education opportunities to all regardless of where they live.

LECTURES

Students meet for face to face lectures every 2 weeks at the week ends in learning centres.

Strategic Focus

•    Mainstreaming ICT into administration, teaching and learning

•    Establishing multidisciplinary collaboration with local and international institutions 

ACHIEVEMENTS

1.    The programme started with 284 students in 2009 in 3 learning  centres. In 2015 we have 30 learning centres in all 10 regions of Ghana with 6759 students. 

2.    The number of pioneer  Graduands was 178 in 2012.

In the second graduation, the number was 2388.

3.    Training Teachers, at no expense to the Government, to teach in the Rural Areas where  most trained teachers from the government institutions are not willing to go. 

4.    Some graduands are continuing their studies outside Ghana. 

Ebenezer A. Jackson is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Co-Founder and Director of the Jackson Educational Complex in 2009. He received the B.Sc. (1967) and M.Sc. (1970) degrees in Electrical Engineering from KNUST, Kumasi and the PhD (1974) in Automatic Control from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His teaching career started in 1967 as a Teaching Assistant at KNUST. He has since taught electrical engineering courses at KNUST, University of Lagos, National University of Rwanda, Christian Service University College and Kumasi Polytechnic. His research areas include Control Systems, Energy and Computers in Education, where he has over 55 publications in Journal and Conference Proceedings. He has supervised postgraduate and undergraduate students thesis and served as external examiner to the University of Ghana, Regional Maritime University, University of Mines and Technology and the Polytechnics. He has also served as a Consultant to the Ghana Standards Board, a number of Government Ministries and the African Development Foundation (ADF). He was the Head of Department of Electrical as well as Computer Engineering for a number of years. He retired as the Dean of the School of Engineering in 2004. 

He is a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineers and served as its Vice-President from 2005 to 2006. 

In the USA, he joined choirs which performed with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York Philharmonic Orchestras in Carnegie  and Avery Fisher Halls in New York under renowned conductors like Eugene Ormandy and Lorin Maazel.