FUNDING OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: A PANACEA FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PERIOD OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN ANAMBRA STATE

This research focused on funding of university education: a panacea for excellence in teaching and learning in period of economic uncertainty in Awka State. The study was guided by three research questions and three research hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance. It adopted the descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised 1041 senior lecturers of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Through simple random sampling, a total of 300 senior lecturers were selected for the study. Instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled ‘funding of university education as panacea for excellence in teaching and learning’. The questionnaire was validated by three education experts. In order to ascertain the reliability of the instrument, it was tested on 25 university lecturers from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra who were not part of the selected sample. Test-retest technique was adopted for this process after which, scores were collated and computed using Cronbach Alpha which yielded coefficients of 0.83, 0.79 and 0.85 index respectively. Mean and standard deviation was used for data analysis while t-test was used to test the hypotheses. Findings show among others that university education in Nigeria is funded through education tax funds, government funding, tuition and fees, grants, consultancy and research activities as well as through community participation.The study recommends among others that stakeholders in university education should make funds readily available to universities in order to maintain the progress of innovation in human and material resources

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