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Dr. (Mrs) Benedicta Awusi Atiku is a teacher educator with 22 years of experience in Colleges of Education system in Ghana. She focuses on excellent education delivery, education institutional development, research and publication and community services. She has been in educational leadership in various capacities since the year 2000 and currently serves as the Principal of Dambai College of Education. Additionally, she is the Representative of Principals Conference (PRINCOF) on National Steering Committee of Early Childhood Education Policy Implementation of Ghana Education Service under Ministry of Education; the Secretary of Volta-Oti PRINCOF; and the Patron of Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) of the Volta-Oti Sector. She is noted for her pragmatic, result-oriented transformational leadership which she does through stakeholder engagement, collaboration and cooperation with emphasis on inclusivity firmly grounded on communal oriented culture. Dambai College of Education she leads currently is witnessing astronomical transformation in infrastructure provision, staff development and promotion, students innovative services and college community engagement.

Some leadership portfolios she served prior to her appointment as Principal included Vice Principal; Lead in T-TEL College-Based Challenge Fund; Lead in T-TEL College-Based Payment-By-Result Fund; College Policy Development; Chairperson of Professional Development Committee, Academic Planning & Quality Assurance Committee, Disciplinary Committee, Library Committee, Residence & Housing Committee; HoD of Academic Department; Programme Coordinator of UTDBE; HIV / AIDS Education Coordinator, Senior Hall Warden, Hall Warden among others, all at the Colleges of Education system.

Her love for educational development and extension services pulled her into organising voluntary teaching in deprived schools in Central Tongue District of the Volta Region in 2014 which witnessed massive success with 83 Colleges of Education teacher trainees participation for two weeks. Similarly, she served as the Focal Person of Agenda Developers-Peki Education Network (PEN), an NGO into community education improvement in 2018 and 2019.

She has many publications to her honour among which most concentrated on teacher development and educational administration. Her area of specialisation is educational administration, management and leadership. She holds Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Educational Leadership from University of Education, Winneba; Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) Administration in Higher Education; Master of Education (M. Ed.) Educational Administration; and Bachelor of Education, all from the University of Cape Coast. She believes in life-long learning and thus undertook short courses which included ‘Lean Theory’ at the University of St. Andrews and Dundee, Scotland; ‘Online Design, Teaching and Learning’ at the University of Applied Sciences – Digital Society School, Amsterdam; ‘Empowering Principals of Colleges of Education in Ghana for Transformational Leadership -The Ghana / Netherlands Comparative Experience’ at the Netherlands University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands and ‘Teacher Education for Basic Education of African Countries ‘B’ under Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)  at the University of Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan. She participated in many regional, national and international workshops / forums to improve her professional delivery capacity. She made presentations in most of those forums.

Awards she has won included:

• ‘Principal of the Year’. 2021 / 2023 Academic Year of VOLTI Sector TTAG Rating
• ‘Best Teacher’ (1st position of 2007 Volta Regional Teacher Training Colleges Category) organised by Ministry of Education, Government of Ghana
• ‘Hardworking Tutor’. Issued in 2003 by Board of Governors of E.P College of Education, Amedzofe, Volta Region, Ghana.
• ‘Best National Service Person in Tema District’. National Service Personnel Association (NASPA) Award for 1999 Batch of service personnel, Tema District, Greater Accra Region.