March 2020 Vol.8 No.3

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Original Research Article

Administrators Adoption of Funding Strategies for Resource Improvement in South-South Universities

Prof. Nkechi Ikediugwu and Alphonsus Patrick Udoh*

Department of Educational Management and Policy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka

*Corresponding Author’s E-mail: udoh.alphonsus@yahoo.com

Accepted March 23, 2020

Abstract

This study centered on administrators’ adoption of funding strategies for resource improvement in South-South Universities. Evaluative survey was adopted for the study. The study comprised of 730 universities administrators in the study areas. However, due to instrument mortality in the administration process, a total of 670 instruments (Federal Universities 366; state universities 304) were successfully returned. These formed the final sample size. Two research questions were answered while two hypotheses were tested in the study at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled: Administrators Adoption of Funding Strategies for Resource Improvement Questionnaire (AFSRIQ). Mean was used to answer the research questions, the aggregate mean for each cluster were computed separately for federal and state universities respondents on each research question. Research questions were answered using mean scores while hypothesis where tested using IBM statistical package for social sciences (SPSS Statistics) to compare the variability of scores among respondents. The decision rule was to reject a null hypothesis where the significant value was greater than or equal to the alpha value and where the alpha value was less than the significant value, the null hypothesis was not rejected. It was found out that both administrators in federal and state universities agreed that they adopt the public private partnership funding and tertiary education trust fund funding strategies for resource improvement in south-south universities. Among the recommendations made were; Universities administrators should seek for intervention of public private partnership in the development of university. The universities administrators should approach the board of trustee of TETFund agency to reviewed programmes to accommodate non-teaching staff in academic programmes and the 30% allocation to non-teaching staff be reviewed upward. Conclusion was drawn based on the findings.

Keyword: Resources, Improvement, Strategies