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| Impact of Emerging Trend in Academic Staff Appointment and Service Delivery in University Of Nigeria Nsukka and Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, 2014 - 2020 |
ENEH MAXIMUS IKENNA and ASOMBA IFEYINWA
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Abstract:
The appointment of academic staff in any university be it public or private is of paramount importance to the Educational sector. This is so because it is the academic staff that turns the vision and mission of the institutions into reality. The decreasing quality of performance in public universities is believed by certain individuals and unions to be the consequence of not only infrastructural decay but the pattern of academic appointment in recent time, which with the envisaged improvement in government condition of service could possibly be the panacea. Thus, the objectives of any university can only be realized through the effective co-ordination of the human resource (staff) within the institution. This paper attempts an examination on the impact of emerging trend in academic staff appointment and service delivery in UNN and UNIZIK, 2014 - 2020. Two relevant research questions were raised and addressed. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse the data collected from respondents to the questionnaire designed for this purpose. A population size of (1600) one thousand six hundred was randomly selected comprising both universities under study, of which a sample size of 320 was taken using Taro Yamani formular. The results obtained showed that merit is often jettisoned on the altar of primordial interest in appointment of academic staff into the Nigerian university. The study also reveals that though there are stipulated periods for appointment based on need into the public University, these are often sidelined. It was recommended among others that uniform appointment policy and procedures be formulated, also the implementation must be monitored by external agencies and regulatory bodies.
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