Economic Hardship and University Administration in Nigeria

Abstract

This paper x-ray the impact of economic hardship on university administration in Nigeria with focus on staff and students. The paper is a position paper. Secondary data were used to support every points raised in the paper. The secondary data were collected from relevant books, seminar papers, workshop papers, articles, etc. The paper established that economic hardship has negatively impacted on the universities administration by reducing the internally generated revenue and has affected the staff and students by increasing their cost of living. Economic hardship has directly affected teaching, learning, research and administrative functions of the university system in Nigeria. Based on this findings, the paper recommends the following: Government should increase the funding of universities in Nigeria. This will enable universities administrators to cope with the high running cost of the respective universities across the country. Government should increase the salaries of academic staff in all the public universities in Nigeria. This will help them to address the problem of high cost of living. Government should provide palliative for students and provide school buses to convey the students from campuses to their respective hotels.