RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF UNIVERSITIES IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study assessed the relationship between planning and management of universities in Niger State, Nigeria. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. The research design employed in this study was the correlational survey research design. The population of the study consisted of 1820 staff obtained from the two universities in Niger State. The total sample size of the study consisted of 998 respondents selected using the purposive sampling technique. The researcher developed an instrument for data collection from the respondents. The questionnaire was tagged ‘Planning and Management of Universities’ Questionnaire (PMUQ)”. The instrument was duly validated and it produced 0.78 as the validity index. The instrument was pilot-tested on 50 staff in the University of Abuja and a reliability co-efficient of 0.73 was obtained. Descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research questions while Pearson’s product moment correlation was employed to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study indicated that there is a significant relationship between human resource planning and management of universities in Niger State, Nigeria and there is a significant relationship between timetable planning and management of universities in Niger State, Nigeria. The study recommended among others that the National Universities Commission (NUC) should mandate all federal universities in the North Central States, Nigeria to strictly adhere to the commission’s recruitment policy to avoid a shortage of staff that hinders the effective management of the university system.