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Accreditation of Academic Programmes and Quality University Education in South-South Nigeria

Accreditation of Academic Programmes and Quality University Education in South-South Nigeria

2018
Charles  Akpan
Abstract
The study was aimed at finding out the relationship between accreditation of academic programmes and quality university education. The study area was South-South Nigeria. Two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Simple random and accidental sampling techniques were used to sample 4 federal universities, 400 academic staff, 300 final year students and 200 employers for the study. Three types of instrument titled: Adequacy of Requirements for Accreditation of Academic Programmes Questionnaire (ARAAPQ), Quality University Education Questionnaire (QUEQ) and Employers Rating of quality University Graduates questionnaire (ERQUGQ)   were used for data collection. All the items on the three instruments were weighted on a 4-point response type scale.  Each of the three instruments had a reliability coefficient of 0.82, 0.77 and 0.80 respectively, using Cronbach Alpha reliability method. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive (means and standar...

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