Universities’ Leadership Compliance with the National Universities Commission’s Benchmark on Minimum Academic Standard and Its Impact on Quality of Nigerian University Education | Chapter 02 | Perspectives of Arts and Social Studies Vol. 2
This study investigated the level of
Nigerian Universities’ leadership compliance with the National Universities
Commission’s benchmark on minimum academic standard, and its impact on the
quality of Nigerian university education. This is consequent upon the observations
of some stakeholders in university education, that the failure of universities’
leadership to comply with the National Universities Commission (NUC) benchmark
on minimum academic standard, has been the major problem of quality decline in
Nigerian university education. Descriptive research of survey design was
employed in the study. The population consisted of the staff members from
public universities in south-west Nigeria, while the sample consisted of 50
members of staff each from 3 federal and 3 state universities. The finding
revealed a moderate level of universities’ leadership compliance with the NUC
benchmark on minimum academic standard. The finding was compared with the table
on quality of Nigerian university education. A significant relationship was
established between universities’ leadership compliance with NUC benchmark and
quality of Nigerian university education, and no significant difference was
established between the federal and state universities’ staff assessment of
leadership compliance with the NUC benchmark. Based on these findings,
conclusions were drawn and recommendations made. Quality can only be acquired
when set standard are achieved, but may be difficult where funding is
inadequate. The moderate level of universities’ leadership compliance
established by the study was an indication of leadership failure to comply
fully with NUC benchmark on minimum academic standard. This confirmed the
stakeholders’ observation that the failure of leadership to comply fully with
NUC benchmark on minimum academic standard has been a major problem of quality
decline in Nigerian university education. However, this finding may not have
been unconnected with the poor funding pattern of government. The
non-significant difference established between the assessment of the federal
and state university staff, on Nigerian university leadership compliance with
NUC benchmark on minimum academic standard is an indication that ownership
status has no impact on universities’ leadership level of compliance. Conclusively,
Nigerian universities’ leadership should not only give a total compliance to
NUC benchmark on minimum academic standard, but improve upon it, by attaining a
level higher than the set standard in order to improve on the quality of its
education. The government should increase on its budgetary provision for
university education as “without good budgets, there are no school.”
Author(s) Details
Dr. (Mrs) Ibijola,
Elizabeth Yinka
Department of Educational
Management, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
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