Administrative Policy Need Strategy and Sustainability of Government-Owned Universities in South-South, Nigeria

Authors: GEORGEWILL Enefaa.

Abstract:
This paper surveyed Administrative Policy Need Strategy and Sustainability of Government-owned Universities in South-South, Nigeria. The concept of Administrative Policy Need Strategy considered those things that are important in implementing policy especially in universities. Policy implementation must consider the benefit of the policy, what contribution of the need to the university and the society. The study anchored in the Social Network Theory by Barnes, 1954. The Positivism philosophical foundation was adopted. This is because the study is about the organization. The research survey was the Cross-Sectional Survey. Using the Cross-Sectional Survey provided room the use structured design questionnaire to collect data from the respondents. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the nominal data or the demographic details of the respondents. The population is the study comprised of seventeen (17) government-owned universities in South-South, Nigeria. A total of two hundred and eighty-nine (255) respondents were drawn from the population members, thus, the sample size for the study was 255. The study used structured and close-ended questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The data retrieved was analyzed using the Spearman Rank Order Correlations with the help of SPSS version 24. The findings showed that there is a positive relationship between Administrative Policy Need Strategy and Sustainability of Government-owned Universities in South-South, Nigeria. Therefore, it was concluded that Administrative Policy Need Strategy enhanced Sustainability of Government-owned Universities in South-South, Nigeria. We therefore recommend that the Universities that are seeking to achieve sustainability in terms of Programme Quality, Gown-town Content and Solution Index should integrate Administrative Policy Need Strategy. This strategy can also be applied in similar organizations to achieve sustainability.

Keywords: Administrative, Policy, Need, Sustainability, Programme, Content

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