PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION (NUC) ACTIVITIES ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL UNIVERSITIES IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

Abstract

This study investigated the perceived influence of National Universities Commission (NUC activities on the management of federal universities in North Central Nigeria. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated for the study. The study was anchored on the Bureaucratic Theory of Management of Max Webber (1947). The research adopted a perceptual and descriptive survey design. The population for the study comprised 10,368 teaching and non-teaching staff of eight (8 federal universities in North Central Nigeria obtained from the registry departments of the federal universities. The sample for this study is 400 respondents drawn through multistage sampling procedure. A structured questionnaire developed by the researchers titled ‘National Universities Commission and Management of Federal Universities Questionnaire, (NUCMFU-Q’ was used for data collection. Mean Scores were used to answer the research questions while Chi-Square was used to test the hypotheses. This study found out that there is a high extent of influence of NUC policies on students’ admission as well as staff promotion policy on the management of federal universities in the area of study. The study recommends that the federal government should create an enabling environment that will facilitate the NUC in carrying out its core mandate functions such as developing students’ admission and staff promotion polices in the federal universities in order to promote the provision of quality university education to the recipients.