Availability and Adequacy of Human and Material Resources for the Teaching and Learning of Skill-based Courses in Nigeria Public Universities

Abstract

This study was carried out to access the availability and adequacy of human and material resources for the teaching and learning of skill-based courses in Nigerian Public Universities. In doing this, three (3) research questions and two (2) hypotheses were formulated. The population of this study consisted of academic staf f and final year students of 2009/2010 academic session in Nigerian Public Universities. The instruments used to collect data were the questionnaire and checklist. The researcher personally visited the ten (10) institutions that were earlier selected through stratified random sampling, and administered questionnaires to the respondents who numbered 1750 but only 1500 were returned. Data was analyzed using the mean statistics, percentage and t-test, the finding amongst other findings was that: the human and material resources on ground for the teaching and learning of skill-based courses in Nigerian Public Universities did not match the minimum standard requirement recommended by the National Universities Commission. Based on these findings, recommendations such as government, non-government organization and good citizens should ensure to provide the needed human and material resources to help in the production of skilled graduates for national development were made amongst others, hopefully when adhered to, would yield positive results.