This document discusses accreditation and quality assurance in Nigerian universities. It examines the impact of accreditation on quality assurance. The study found significant relationships between accreditation and quality of resource input, quality of output, and quality of process. However, it found no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of academic content. The document concludes that quality assurance involves activities and procedures to ensure standards are met for education quality, and that accreditation can help strengthen university programs for quality assurance and improvement.
Education is a birth right of every person. Education helps to develop the cognitive ability which helps to discern between good and bad. Quality education should be made accessible for everyone. http://www.iao.org/what-are-the-quality-assurance-standards/ gives an insight on standards that are deemed as essential in education.
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• Highlight Key Challenges for the technology adoption, regulatory support, industry standards, and the ecosystem within the context of IoT.
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After completion of the presentation, the participants will be able to know:
- The Origins of Quality Assurance in Higher Education
- Definitions in Quality Assurance
- Quality Enhancement
- Quality Assessment
- Accreditation
- The importance of Accreditation
- What is QA’s relationship to Accreditation?
- Why accreditation?
- Actors and factors in HE Quality
- Internal Quality Assurance Applied by Asian Universities
- Regional and International Quality Standards
- National Quality Standards
- Characteristics of QA in Asia
- QA Challenges in Asia
Education for All in India: Financing India's Elementary EducationJonathon Flegg
India's Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for All) Scheme is the biggest education financing programme of its kind in the world. This presentation addresses the major problems currently facing the financing of the system's, and proposes a new "grand bargain" to make the system work better for all Indians.
UGC NET Examination - Preparation Tips and StrategyThiyagu K
The National Eligibility Test (NET) is conducted on behalf of the University Grants Commission (UGC) for determining the eligibility of Indian nationals for the Eligibility of Assistant Professorship, JRF, or both for Indian Universities and Colleges. This presentation slide gives you the UGC NET Examination preparation tips and strategies. This presentation slide also gives the road map to crack the UGC NET examination.
All the best to all the UGC NET Aspirants.
Muhammad Tahir Rabbani is well-renowned teacher, trainer,parenting coach,writer, an inspirational speaker and leader, a success coach and a practical educationist of Pakistan.
Arya Group of Colleges features an ideal blend of four basic pillars of contemporary education system viz. infrastructure, faculty, management & academic.Best and Biggest Engineering College in North India.NBA Accredited College with highest (around 1200) number of Accredited Branches.Highest number of Industrial Alliances.Best Placement track record of past 10 years with highest placement ratio.
Before the advent of the industrialization, Education was the privilege to the people of ancient times.
We have been witnessing the various forms of education like vedic, boards, technical education etc...
Explains what NSQF entails; the objectives of NSQF. The 3 pillars of NSQF. The impetus given to skill development to promote employability of students.
This PPT aims to Provide Knowledge and Understanding to the Learner about the concept of Comparative Education, Geographical Factor in Comparative Education, Economic Factor in Comparative Education, Cultural Factor in Comparative Education, Philosophical Factor in Comparative Education, Sociological Factor in Comparative Education, Linguistic Factor in Comparative Education and so on.
The study examines the nature of relationship between quality control measures and student output in University of Uyo and University of Calabar. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The correlational research design was used for the study. The population comprised 2,967 teaching staff and 11,635 students from University of Uyo and University of Calabar. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 642 teaching staff and 1,232 students from the sampled schools. Two instruments, one being researchers-developed instrument titled “Quality Control Questionnaire (QCQ)” and a documentary analysis checklist titled “Student Output Checklist (SOC)” were used for data collection. The instruments used for data collection were face validated by three experts. The reliability co-efficient of QCQ was determined using the Cronbach Alpha Analysis and a reliability index of 0.81 was obtained. The r-value of Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) coefficient was used to answer the research questions, while PPMC was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the quality control on student intake and student engagement significantly relates to student output in University of Uyo and University of Calabar. It was therefore concluded that the quality of student output in University of Uyo and University of Calabar is influenced by quality control variables. Based on the findings of this study, it is therefore recommended amongst others that, universities’ admission regulatory body should ensure that all prospective students vying for admission have good grades in their O’levels and Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Furthermore, all candidates should also be admitted based on merit in order to ensure quality student output.
After completion of the presentation, the participants will be able to know:
- The Origins of Quality Assurance in Higher Education
- Definitions in Quality Assurance
- Quality Enhancement
- Quality Assessment
- Accreditation
- The importance of Accreditation
- What is QA’s relationship to Accreditation?
- Why accreditation?
- Actors and factors in HE Quality
- Internal Quality Assurance Applied by Asian Universities
- Regional and International Quality Standards
- National Quality Standards
- Characteristics of QA in Asia
- QA Challenges in Asia
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This paper examined the issues and challenges of assuring the quality of secondary schools in Nigeria and the strategies on the way forward. In doing that, such concepts like quality, quality assurance, management, secondary education and state of secondary school in Nigeria were reviewed. Irrespective of the fact that some aspects of education may be considered as improving, reviews have shown that students’ ability for practical curricular activities are deteriorating showing that quality of our educational system is poor and not assured. The challenges of assuring quality among others were observed to be increasing school enrolment, ineffective teaching and learning process, the poor motivation of teachers, lack of educational resources, lack of quality control and poor funding to schools. To overcome these challenges the paper observed the following strategies as the way forward adequate funding, adequate equipment and facilities, provision of incentives to staff, provision of qualified manpower, effective supervisory system, improving on teachers’ level of training etc. When these are done it is believed that the quality of the educational system would be achieved and assured. Therefore efforts must be made to assure quality in the secondary school system in its totality consisting of quality teaching for quality products. Osaat, Dinah Sunday | Nzokurum, Joy "Assuring Quality in the Management of Secondary Schools in Nigeria: Issues, Challenges and the Way Forward" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-3 , April 2021, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd39937.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/39937/assuring-quality-in-the-management-of-secondary-schools-in-nigeria-issues-challenges-and-the-way-forward/osaat-dinah-sunday
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The term Assessment and Verification is an integral part of the student
achievement and considered as a fundamental function of higher education.
Assessment and verification confirm and assures the academic integrity and
standard which has a vital impact on student behaviour, colleagues’
involvements, the university reputation and finally the student’s future lives.
The research aimed to explore various academic and industry-based
literatures to analyse the importance of assessment and verification and to
identify areas to ensure reliability in assessment by testing skills and
knowledge. The research used experimental research methods (primarily
reflection) using literary forms to analyse the theory with the reinforcement
of the practice from the university experiences. It also has collected data
using semi-structured interview from mutually agreed department colleagues
from five different higher educational institutes consists of three universities
and two alternative providers based in London, United Kingdom. The result
showed that assessment in higher educational institutes have not kept pace
with the changes and no longer justify the outcomes we expect from a
university education in relation to wide-ranging knowledge, skills, and
employability. The research findings enable the educators to help create and
implement an inclusive teaching and learning environment to improve the
learner’s expectation and academic performance.
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International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI) is an international journal intended for professionals and researchers in all fields of Humanities and Social Science. IJHSSI publishes research articles and reviews within the whole field Humanities and Social Science, new teaching methods, assessment, validation and the impact of new technologies and it will continue to provide information on the latest trends and developments in this ever-expanding subject. The publications of papers are selected through double peer reviewed to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. The articles published in our journal can be accessed online.
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Accreditation and quality assurance in nigerian universities
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Nigerian Universities
Obadara, Olabanji E. (Ph.D.) 1*
Alaka Abayomi A. (Ph.D.)2
1. Department of Educational Management, Tai Solarin University of Education,Ogun State, Nigeria.
2. Department of Educational Management, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
* E-mail of correspondent author: doctorobadara@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of accreditation on quality assurance in Nigerian universities. Descriptive survey
design was used for the study. A sample of 74 universities out of 124 universities in Nigeria presently (22 federal
owned and 22 state owned, and 30 private universities} was drawn using proportionate stratified random
sampling technique. Also, simple random sampling was used to select 20 respondents (including teaching and
non-teaching staff, who are in charge of the data needed for the study) were selected from each university, which
amounted to 1480 staff. The study developed and used two sets of questionnaire tagged “Accreditation
Procedures and Minimum Academic Standard Questionnaire (APMASQ), and Quality Assurance Questionnaire
(QAQ)” with correlation coefficient (r) of 0.73 and 0.69 respectively and complimented with secondary data
from NUC records. Pearson product moment correlation coefficient (r) was employed to analyse the data. While
the null hypotheses developed for the study were tested at .05 level of significance. The findings revealed that
there is significant relationship between accreditation and resource input into Nigerian universities, quality of
output, quality of process, and no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of academic content.
It is therefore recommended among others that human capacities should be built in the area of quality assurance
so as to ensuring quality in Nigerian universities. Also, accreditation exercises and conducts should be properly
manipulated and supervised without playing politics so as to achieve education standards, quality and
effectiveness for purpose of accomplishing goals of university education in Nigeria.
Key words: Quality assurance, Quality, University education, Accreditation, Standards, Quality improvement.
1. Introduction
Quality assurance (QA) has been an issue at the forefront of educational system concerns for the past
decade. It is the set of planned and systematic actions necessary to provide appropriate confidence that a product
or service will satisfy the requirements for quality. Also an important part of defining the end-product of any
educational system is the specification of its quality related features - which the system must then aim to deliver.
Quality assurance is a global term used to incorporate the quality policy, quality management and quality control
functions, which combine to assure the client that the product will be consistently manufactured to the required
condition. Its aim is to achieve and assure quality through the adoption of a cost effective quality control system
and through external inspections and audits. Quality assurance is a way of measuring, improving, and
maintaining the quality of any human activity that has a value. It may be academic, sports performance, business,
or economy. Quality assurance is a means of ensuring that the best practices are encouraged in a social system.
Quality, as a concept, has been defined differently by different stakeholders. This is because it is multi-
dimensional and mean different thing to different stakeholders. Quality can be defined as “fitness for purpose”. It
encapsulates the concept of meeting commonly agreed precepts or standards. Such standards may be defined by
law, an institution, a coordinating body or a professional society. In the diverse arena of higher education, fitness
for purpose varies tremendously by field and programme. Quality refers to the standard of a phenomenon when
it is compared to other things like it: how good or bad something is, that is, to be of good/poor/top quality or of a
high standard. In this context, it is associated with the ‘monitoring and evaluation component of education’ to
see whether the outcome is good and of the intended standard. Quality is the ability or degree with which a
product, service, or phenomenon conforms, to an established standard, and which makes it to be relatively
superior to others. With respect to education, this implies the ability or degree with which an educational system
conforms to the established standard and appropriateness, of the inputs available for the delivery of the system
(Fadipe, 1999). Quality in education therefore means the relevance and appropriateness of the education
programme to the needs of the community for which it is provided.
Quality assurance on the other hand, is about consistently meeting product specification or getting
things right the first time, and every time. Quality assurance in the university system implies the ability of the
institutions to meet the expectations of the users of manpower in relation to the quality of skills acquired by their
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outputs (Ajayi and Akindutire, 2007). Equally, it can be said to be the ability of the universities to meet certain
criteria relating to academic matters, staff-student ratios, staff mix by rank, staff development, physical facilities,
funding, and adequate library facilities. Adequacy of various inputs in the university system, in terms of quality
and quantity, exercises tremendous influence on quality assurance in the university system.
Quality assurance is a key component of successful internationalization; a mechanism for building
institutional reputation in the competitive local and global arena and a necessary foundation for consumer
protection (NUC, 2004). Quality assurance for this paper is defined conventionally as fitness for purpose in the
university education, as meeting or conforming with generally accepted standards as defined by quality
assurance bodies and appropriate academic and professional communities. It is also viewed as a planned and
systematic review process carried out by organization, institution, or programme to determine if acceptable
standards are being met, maintained and enhanced. It guarantees confidence in a programme of study given by
an institution that standards and quality are being maintained and enhanced (UNESCO, 2006).
Kisailowska (2002) noted that quality assurance principles are a certain form of naming and ordering
the actions that are necessary for assuring the quality, for instance of teaching, it is internally measured and
evaluated at a given university, and also externally, during an accreditation process. As a result of this, quality
assurance principles are to be used as indicators to ensure compliance. It is noteworthy that quality assurance
principles regulate both the external and internal activities of an educational institution. Assuring quality means:
• pointing to and naming the elements that are decisive to the evaluation of an educational process or
other assessable elements;
• defining the procedures for acting, appointing person and working out the documents necessary for the
correct execution of tasks relating to a given entity;
• setting quality indicators; and
• analysing quality on a regular basis with the use of appropriate tools.
A tertiary institution is only as good as the quality of its teaching staff - they are the heart of the institution that
produces its graduates, its research products, and its service to the institution, community, and nation. Every
nation and its university graduates are competing in an environment shaped by its own local and national needs,
as well as international expectations and standards. The impact of the latter is increasing. As a result, the success
and competitiveness of graduates in tertiary institutions will be affected by those standards and expectations.
There is no doubt that the quality of higher education determines the quality of human resources of a
country. One of the major objectives of the universities is to produce a qualified, skilled and globally competent
workforce for the labour market of business and industry, which is a critical factor to national growth and
development. Since no nation can develop beyond the quality of its higher education. Recent developments such
as increasing student enrolments; reduced state funding for public higher education; increasing number of private
providers; internationalisation cross border education have also influenced the purpose and functions of higher
education (Hayward, 2006). The need for global competiveness is another recent development that has impacted
higher education. In Nigeria, some of these recent developments are reflected in mission statement of the
National Universities Commission (NUC), which is the regulatory body established to oversee the administration
and delivery of higher education in Nigeria: ‘to ensure the orderly development of a well coordinated and
productive university system that will guarantee quality and relevant education for national development and
global competitiveness (NUC, 2009).
Accreditation is a process of self-study and external quality review used in higher education to
scrutinize an institution and/or its programmes for quality standards and need for quality improvement. The
process is designed to determine whether or not an institution has met or exceeded the published standards (set
by an external body such as a government, national quality assurance agency, or a professional association) for
accreditation, and whether it is achieving its mission and stated purpose. The process usually includes a self-
evaluation, peer review and a site visit. Accreditation is the establishment or of the status, legitimacy or
appropriateness of an institution, programme or module of study.
Accreditation standards and guidelines in Nigeria educational system is aimed at strengthening
programme for quality assurance and quality improvement. It is a process that aids institutions in developing and
sustaining effective educational programmes and assures the educational community, the general public, and
other organizations that the accredited institution has met high standards of quality and effectiveness. The
Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in Washington, US defines accreditation as a process of
external review used by higher education to scrutinize colleges, universities and educational programmes for
quality assurance and quality improvement. However, the extent to which each tertiary institution accepts and
fulfils the responsibilities inherent in this process is a measure of its concern for freedom and quality in higher
education and of its commitment to strive for and achieve excellence in its endeavours.
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According to United States Department of Education (USDE), there are two basic types of educational
accreditation, one identified as "institutional" and one referred to as "specialized" or "programmatic"
Institutional accreditation normally applies to an entire institution, indicating that each of an institution's parts is
contributing to the achievement of the institution's objectives, although not necessarily all at the same level of
quality. The accrediting Commission (NUC), for example, performs institutional accreditation, as other national
accrediting agencies do, such as the Board (NBTE). In Nigeria, specialized accreditation is a voluntary process
and institutions choose to apply for accredited status. If accredited, such an institution agrees to abide by the
standards of their accrediting agency and to regulate itself by taking responsibility for its own improvement.
Accordingly, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) grants exemption to graduates of
accredited institutions from its professional examinations. Specialized or programmatic accreditation normally
applies to programmes, departments, or schools that are parts of an institution. The accredited unit may be as
large as a college or school within a university or as small as a curriculum within a discipline. Most of the
specialized or programme accrediting agencies review units within an institution of higher education.
As stated above, the concept of quality assurance is the ability of education institutions to meet the need
of the user of manpower in relation to the quality of skills acquired by their products, that is, students. The
quality of an academic programme becomes a universal concern because the product of one university invariably
becomes an employee in another university or other cultures' industrial setting. Also, degree obtained at the end
of training in a university is intended to ascertain the level of competency (Ijeoma and Osagie, 2005).
The National Universities Commission (NUC, 2006) defined quality assurance as the systematic review
of educational programmes to ensure that acceptable standards of, education, scholarship and infrastructure are
being maintained. As part of the efforts to ensure qualitative university education in Nigeria, the NUC was
particular about ensuring accreditation of academic programmes in Nigerian universities in order to produce
graduates who are relevant to the Nigerian economy. Emphasis was laid on the quality of academic staff and
students to be admitted and employed respectively. The Commission is committed to improving the quality of
university programmes through injection of requisite inputs as well as assuring quality process and outputs based
on the decree 49 of 1988 that widen its scope. The National Universities Commission is charged to embark on
accreditation of quality assurance in Nigerian universities.
Quality assurance can be either an external or internal process. External quality assurance refers to the
review by an external agency (e.g. a national quality assurance agency) or body (e.g. a professional body), which
evaluates the operations of a university (institutional) or of its programmes to ascertain the level of compliance
with set minimum standards. External quality assurance is mainly carried out through the instrumentality of
accreditation and involves, as indicated earlier, a self-study, peer review and a reporting system. Internal quality
assurance, on the other hand, refers to the internal policies and mechanisms of a university or programme for
ensuring that it is fulfilling its purposes as well as the standards that apply to higher education in general or to the
profession or discipline, in particular (IIEP, 2006). Indeed, most universities from inception design and
implement various internal activities to ensure that certain agreed standards of performance are being met.
Examples of such are the external examination system, self-assessment system, student-lecturer assessment etc.
2. Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this paper is to empirically establish the correlation between accreditation and quality
assurance with the aim of using its findings to make useful recommendations on how to strengthen Nigerian
university programmes for quality assurance and quality improvement.
3. Research Hypotheses
The following null hypotheses were developed and tested in the course of this study to find solutions to the
problems under investigation.
Ho1: There is no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of resource input into Nigerian
universities.
Ho2: There is no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of output of Nigerian universities.
Ho3: There is no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of process in Nigerian universities.
Ho4: There is no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of academic content in Nigerian
universities.
4. Methodology
Descriptive survey design was used for the study. A sample of 74 universities (22 federal owned and 22
state owned and 30 private universities) out of 124 universities (37 federal, 37 state, and 50 private) in Nigeria
presently was drawn using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Also, simple random sampling
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was used to select 20 respondents (including teaching and non-teaching staff, who are in charge of the data
needed for the study) from each university, which amounted to 1480 staff. The study developed and used two
sets of questionnaire tagged “Accreditation Procedures and Minimum Academic Standard Questionnaire
(APMASQ)”, and “Quality Assurance Questionnaire (QAQ)” with correlation coefficient (r) of 0.73 and 0.69
respectively and complimented with secondary data from NUC records. Pearson product moment correlation
coefficient (r) was employed to analyse the data. While the null hypotheses developed for the study were tested
at .05 level of significance.
5. Results and Discussion
The results of the study are presented in the Table 1 below according to the hypotheses generated for
the study.
The Table 1 above shows the relationship between accreditation and the dependent variable: quality
assurance measuring parameters tested in the study. It reveals a significant relationship between accreditation
and resource input into Nigerian universities (r = 0.48, p > 0.05), quality of output (r = 0.42, p > 0.05), quality of
process (r = 0.37, p > 0.05), and no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of academic
content (r = 0.14, p < 0.05). Since the observed r - values of the first three parameters is greater than the
tabulated r - values, the null hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 are rejected. This implies that there is significant relationship
between accreditation and resource input into Nigerian universities, quality of output, and quality of process.
While the last null hypothesis is accepted since the observed r - value of the parameter is lesser than the
tabulated r - value. Therefore, there is no significant relationship between accreditation and quality of academic
content.
The findings revealed that there is significant relationship between accreditation and resource input into
Nigerian universities, quality of output, quality of process, and no significant relationship between accreditation
and quality of academic content. It should be noted that quality of education could be measured in terms of
quality of input, quality of output, quality of content and quality of process. Therefore, these parameters were
used by the study to assess quality assurance.
Quality assurance is a set of activities or procedures that an organization undertakes to ensure that
standards are specified and reached consistently for a product or service. Its goal is to create reliable systems by
anticipating problems and designing procedures to avoid as many errors and faults as possible (Kisuniene, 2004).
It is a systematic management and assessment procedure adopted by higher education institutions and system in
order to monitor performance against objectives and to ensure achievement of quality outputs and quality
improvements. This present findings are in agreement with the findings of Green (1994), who observed that an
aggregate of actions and measures taken regularly to assure the quality of higher education products, services, or
processes, with an emphasis on assuring that a prescribed threshold of quality is met will go a long way in
revitalizing nation’s university system.
On the quality of input into Nigerian universities, it is often said that no education can rise above the
quality of its teachers. The teacher is the most important of all the inputs that go into educational provision. This
is because education of the highest quality requires teachers of the highest quality. Currently, there is student
population explosion in Federal and State Universities due to over enrolment without expansion of facilities (see
Table 2 below). To ameliorate the situation, 6 new federal universities were established, one in each geo-political
zones of the country. Also, more private universities have been granted license to operate. Classrooms are over-
crowded while laboratories and other learning materials are grossly inadequate because of insufficient funding
which is the cry of all the universities. The UNESCO had recommended a standard budget allocation to
educational sector to stand as 26% but there is never a year in the history of this country that 26% of a national
budget is allocated to education.
Quantity and quality of academic staff is another element of major concern. The teacher/student ratio is
always nothing to talk of; even the ratios by discipline are far from encouraging especially in the humanities and
some science-based disciplines (Okebukola, 2010). The most unfortunate about the academic staff is that their
population is heavy at the bottom. Senior lecturers and above are few while lecturer 1 and below are more. Many
are no longer interested in Ph.D and now that private universities have increased, the situation is going to be
worse. All these are the focus of accreditation exercise.
The quality of education does not depend only on resource inputs, but also on the output, which
includes academic achievement on tests, scores and progression and pass rates; in other words, the internal and
external efficiency. The dimensions for quality in the output are measures of achievement, attainment and
standards (Maduewesi, 2005). Achievement refers to what students really learnt in terms of the knowledge, skills
and attitudes acquired. Attainment refers to the number of students who complete the prescribed academic
programmes and obtain the qualifications. Standards are the official learning objectives, that is what society
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expects of products of a given school system. Out of the three, a measure of achievement which is most relevant
to this research also offers the most promising source of policy-relevant information. From the national survey
jointly carried out by National Universities Commission and Education Trust Fund, there were series of
comments made on the account of complaints of the deteriorating standards of graduates from Nigerian
universities in various fields of knowledge in the survey. The disciplines included administration, agriculture,
arts, education, engineering, social sciences, veterinary medicine and medical sciences, (NUC, 2004). The
outputs were found to be deficient both in communication skill and professionalism.
The quality of process implies student/teacher interaction, level of learner participation and engagement
in learning. Repetition and drop-out rates are indicators of inefficiency in an education system. Carry-over
syndrome is taken to be normal by Nigerian university students. Other indicators that show it is not well with the
process of Nigerian university education are issues of examination malpractice, sexual harassment, sorting, sale
of handouts, cultist etc. There is also delay of release of results in some universities. Outputs of educational
research are nothing to boast about in today's Nigerian universities as teachers bemoan dearth of research grants.
Community service which is another indicator of efficiency is at very low ebb. Not much is heard of in this area
(Omoregie, 2005).
The curriculum content of our educational system has been criticized as being overloaded, and does not
sufficiently attend to the needs of the Nigerian learner. The data from the Monitoring of Learning Achievement
(MLA) project, a nationwide study conducted between 1994 – 1996 and the report published in 1997 by the
Federal Ministry of Education, with the support of UNICEF and UNESCO has also shown that there is a wide
gap between the intended curriculum and the achieved curriculum. However, this criticism has been challenged
because the curriculum content of our institutions compares favourably with those in other countries. What is
needed in our system is a re-ordering of the curriculum content i.e. (the intended curriculum) and enrichment of
the achieved curriculum and for the implemented curriculum to focus on relevance and functionality. The
achieved curriculum is the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are achieved or learned while the implemented
curriculum is the translation of curricula intentions into reality in classrooms, laboratories, workshops,
playgrounds and other settings for learning, while not loosing sight of the language provisions in the National
Policy on Education (FGN, 2004). Following this, there should be a flexible curriculum. Curriculum rigidity
must give way to ‘curriculum liberality’. Such curriculum must be relevant to both individual learner’s needs and
societal needs at large.
Another cause of anxiety about Nigerian University education is the instability in the system
characterized by the truncation of academic sessions and the epileptic closure and reopening of universities
occasioned by recurring and sometimes protracted strike actions by staff (academic and non-academic) and
students. Between 1995 and 2003, 28 months were lost in the academic calendars without a make up (Ramon-
Yusuf, 2005). One wonders the quantity of content of curriculum currently being taught.
Despite the fact that during the accreditation exercises, the institution provides evidence of student
learning and teaching effectiveness that demonstrates it is fulfilling its educational mission. Yet, this study
records no significant relationship between accreditation and the quality of content. This may be unconnected
with the fact that measure of the content demands many factors and requirement which may not be adequately
assessed with questionnaire.
Generally, accreditation of institutions and programmes takes place periodically for improvement and
quality assurance in nation’s universities, therefore it:
• verifies that an institution or programme meets established standards;
• assists prospective students in identifying acceptable institutions;
• assists institutions in determining the acceptability of transfer credits;
• helps to identify institutions and programmes for the investment of public and private funds;
• protects an institution against harmful internal and external pressure;
• creates goals for self-improvement of weaker programmes and stimulating a general raising of standards
among educational institutions;
• involves the faculty and staff comprehensively in institutional evaluation and planning;
• establishes criteria for professional certification and licensure and for upgrading courses offering such
preparation; and
• provides one of several considerations used as a basis for determining eligibility for federal assistance
(Okojie, 2008).
Accreditation exercises have been carried out in Nigeria after the Federal government has approved the
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minimum academic standard. The first exercise was conducted in 1990 and 1991 and this involved 837 academic
programmes across Nigeria University. A second comprehensive exercise was inducted between January and
March accreditation in 2000 in both exercises, and according to Okebukola (2002), more than one thousand
academic programmes were accredited in all Nigerian universities. The Universities Commission also accredited
1,343 programmes in 2005 in 48 Universities and five Colleges (NUC, 2005). No doubt that accreditation
exercise in Nigerian universities has helped to improve the facilities and the quality assurance report which
stressed the situation analysis of the universities has also helped universities authorities to work on areas where
there are challenges.
6. Conclusion
Accreditation of universities be it institutional or programme is a way of examining the state of the
institution in relation to where it out to be. It is a quality assurance process. It is the primary means by which
universities and programmes assure quality to students and the public. Accredited status is a signal to students
and the public that an institution or programme meets at least minimal standards for its faculty, curriculum,
student services and libraries. Accredited status is conveyed only if institutions and programmes provide
evidence of fiscal stability.
In Nigeria, the Federal government through the Ministry of Education and accrediting agencies (NUC
and NBTE) sustain a cooperative relationship whereby government relies on them to confirm the quality of
institutions and programmes in which students enrol using federal student aid funds. The Federal and State
government fund their respective institutions while privately owned tertiary institutions are funded by the
promoters. Sponsorships and donations from foreign agencies are available to institution and students only if the
institution’s programme is accredited by recognised accrediting institutional and specialised agencies.
Accreditation is important to students for a smooth transfer of courses and programmes among universities. It is
viewed carefully and is considered an important indicator of quality. Accreditation status of an institution or
programme is important to employers when evaluating credentials of job applicants and when deciding whether
to provide tuition support for current employees seeking additional education.
7. Recommendations
In light of the above findings, the following recommendations are proffered. Human capacities should
be built in the area of quality assurance so as to ensuring quality in Nigerian universities. Also, accreditation
exercises and conducts should be properly manipulated and supervised without playing politics so as to achieve
education standards, quality and effectiveness for purpose of accomplishing goals of university education in
Nigeria. Quality assurance should be a continuous process aimed at encouraging attitude change and teamwork
and the inculcation of a value that acknowledges the student as the best judge of quality deserving the best
possible service.
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Table 1: Relationship Between Accreditation and Quality Assurance
Variable N Df Observed(r) Tabulated(r) Remark
Resource Input
74 72 0.48 .229 Sig.
Quality of Output
74 72 0.42 .229 Sig.
Quality of process
74 72 0.37 .229 Sig.
Quality of academic
content
74 72 0.14 .229 NS.
Accreditation
(Constant) 74 - - - -
P< 0.05
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Table 2: Enrolment Growth in Nigerian Universities between1999-2009
Table 3: The Accreditation Performance of Academic Programmes in the Universities
Source: NUC Records 2007.
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