Impact Of Funding On Quality Education In Ahmadu Bello And Nasarawa Universities, Nigeria 2001-2009

📄 Project Abstract

University education has continuously deteriorated since late 1980's due to unprecedented system expansion and enrollment explosion which drastically reduced government ability to adequately fund the system. This dissertation investigated impact of funding on quality university education in two selected Nigeria universities: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (A Federal University) andNasarawa State University, Keffi (A State university), covering the period between2001-2009. The research objectives includes determining funding pattern of the two Universities; to ascertain if funding has improved the quality of teaching, research and also to ascertain if funding has actually impacted on infrastructure in the two universities. Descriptive method employing survey device, questionnaire method augmented with interview and observation techniques were used to collect data from primary and secondary sources. Spearman's correlation analysis and chi-square were used to test the four hypotheses whic...