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Accreditation outcomes, quality of and access to university education in Nigeria
R.A. Alani,Gboyega Ilusanya +1 more
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In this paper, the authors examined the outcomes of some of those accreditation exercises and how they have influenced the quality of and access to university education, and analyzed secondary source data from accreditation reports of 1999, mop up exercises and accreditation re-visitation of 2000-2005 and that of November 2005.Abstract:
Purpose – In response to the challenges of enhancing quality, the agency of government which is responsible for coordinating university education in Nigeria, the National Universities Commission, evolved a system of academic programme accreditation in 1991 to ensure conformity with minimum standards and to promote quality. The purpose of this paper is to examine the outcomes of some of those accreditation exercises and how they have influenced the quality of and access to university education.Design/methodology/approach – The paper analyses secondary source data from accreditation reports of 1999, mop up exercises and accreditation re‐visitation of 2000‐2005 and that of November 2005.Findings – The mean percentage of programmes with full accreditation status was found to have increased from 12.6 in 1999 to 48.5 in 2005, that of programmes which got interim accreditation decreased from 72.66 in 1999 to 48.30 in 2005, while the one for programmes which were denied accreditation decreased from 17.9 in 1999 t...read more
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