Abstract
This study sought to explore the effectiveness of practice of students’ placement into different departments at MWU. To achieve this objective three research questions were laid down. They were: (1) What are the criteria adopted for students ‘departmental placement at MWU? (2) To what extent the criteria and practice for departmental placement, influence students ‘choices of different study programs? (3) What could be possible to solve those problem? A total of 233 students of two batches in there, first and third year studies in 2012/13 were included in this study using stratified random sampling. In addition, 17 officials (university managers) were included using the availability sampling while 16(two from each selected department) instructors were selected using quota sampling technique. Questionnaire, Interview and Documents analysis were employed to collect data. Both quantitative and quantitative methods of data analysis were used as data collection instruments. The finding revealed that, the practice of student departmental placement was anticipated to be governed by five criteria adopted at MWU. The finding also revealed that there was a gap between the intended and actual practice of students’ departmental placement. As a result of this 55.4% students were assigned into their department without their’ choices. Therefore, the researcher recommended the concerned body at MWU, to give due consideration to students; interests, aptitudes and preferences during selection and placement of students into various departments at this university Keywords: Effectiveness; Students placement; the practices DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-4-04 Publication date: February 29 th 2020
Highlights
IntroductionThe organization of universities in departments divided along disciplinary lines is a means of shaping the supply (knowledge) according to market demands and according to internal organizational requirements and choices
The organization of universities in departments divided along disciplinary lines is a means of shaping the supply according to market demands and according to internal organizational requirements and choices.Because of significant shifts in terms of funding and rising costs of research over the last 20 years, universities have become increasingly subjected to market forces
Students were requested to fill in their faculties, departments’ sex, age, academic year of the study and their stream in preparatory school whereas officials were asked to indicate in the questionnaire their background information like their sex, educational qualification, academic rank, position and year of services in the University and these were summarized as follows
Summary
The organization of universities in departments divided along disciplinary lines is a means of shaping the supply (knowledge) according to market demands and according to internal organizational requirements and choices. Because of significant shifts in terms of funding and rising costs of research over the last 20 years, universities have become increasingly subjected to market forces. This usually means that universities are increasingly encouraged to adopt better ‘business practices’ that can make them more competitive in the education and research market. Those universities have been catering to the education demand of citizens.
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