INFLUENCE OF WORLD BANK INTERVENTION ON QUALITY INDICATORS OF UNIVERSITY BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME

Felicia B. Giwa Ph.D, Professor T. A. Umoru (Ph.D)

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This study was carried out to examine the perceived influence of World Bank intervention on information technology services and research & development quality of University Business Education programme in South-West, Nigeria. The study had each two specific purposes, research questions and hypotheses respectively. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design, using 11 universities offering Business Education programme out of 61 universities in South-West. The target population forthestudy was 147 comprising lecturers and working-class Postgraduate students from 11 Universities offering Business Education programme in the South-West Nigeria. A structured questionnaire was designed by the researchers as instrument for the study. The instrument went through face and content validation by two experts. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. Hypotheses 1 were tested using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), while hypotheses 2 were tested using independent samples T-test on SPSS at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the two hypotheses tested revealed among others that World Bank interventions positively influenced information technology services and research & development quality to a very low extent. This means they have little or a very low positive influence on research and development and provision of information technology services of University Business Teacher education programme. In conclusion, the limited effectiveness of World Bank interventions calls for a re-evaluation to better align their initiatives with the specific needs of the university education quality and development in Nigeria. It was recommended among others that the World Bank should increase its investment on provisions of information technology services and establish more extensive partnerships with universities in the aspect of research and development, and across all University Education in Nigeria.


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