MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND THE WAYS FORWARD
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Central Asian Studies
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University management is key to the realization of the universities objectives. University management ensures that universities programme are properly coordinated toward the actualization of universities goals. In Nigeria, the management of public universities is faced with many challenges. The article discusses the challenges facing the management of public universities in Nigeria. To achieve this, the researchers employed the use of secondary data to support the various points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from online and print media. The following challenges were identified as the challenges facing the management of public universities in Nigeria: inadequate funding, inadequate lecturers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, strike actions, academic corruption, insecurity and political inferences. To address the various challenges facing the management of public universities, this article hereby suggests the following: adequate funding of public universities, employment of more lecturers, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, provision of security, de-politicization of the public universities and motivation of lecturers.
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Challenges, Public universities, Management