Problems Facing Academic Staff of Nigerian Universities and the Way Forward

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Research Parks Publishing LLC
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 The article discussed the problems facing the academic staff of Nigerian universities. Secondary data was used to support the points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from print material and online publications by recognized institutions and individual authors. The article identified the following as the problems facing the academic staff of Nigerian universities to include; poor motivation, teaching of large class, poor staff development programme, inadequate infrastructural facilities, strike actions, insecurity, poor computer literacy and poor research funding. To solve these challenges, this article recommends: that government should increase the funding of university education, increase the funding of research programme, motivate the academic staff, provision of effective staff development programme, provision of infrastructural facilities, implementation of union agreement, provision of adequate security and ensure effective capacity development programme on ICT.
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Problems, academic staff, Nigerian Universities
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