Towards Students’ Personnel Administration in Universities in South East, Nigeria: The Place of Tertiary Education Trust Fund Intervention

Abstract

This study investigated on the impact of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention on students’ personnel administration in public universities in South East, Nigeria. One research question guided the study while one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of the study comprised all the 231 staff made up of 16 TETFund officers and 215 Heads of Departments in the five federal universities in South East, Nigeria. The entire population was used as the study sample purposively. The instrument used for data collection was a researcher developed questionnaire. The instrument was validated and the reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach alpha to determine the internal consistency which yielded a reliability index of 0.78. In analyzing the data, mean scores and standard deviation were used to answer the research question. The t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed among others that, TETFund intervention had significant impact on students’ personnel administration in public universities in South East, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, TETFund should improve its intervention in providing grants for academic staff development for conference participation (International and National), and publications in federal universities in South East, Nigeria.