EVALUATING THE EFEECT OF ACCREDITATION STATUS AND STABILITY OF ACADEMIC CALENDAR AS INDICES OF GLOBAL RANKING IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA-NIGERIA

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2018-09-01
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IDRIS, Musa KAITA, Ibrahim Sani
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This study evaluates the effects of Accreditation status andStability of Academic calendar as indices of global ranking in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The study is prompted by poor or low ranking position the University appeared in the Global Ranking and League Table despite adopting many strategies to enhance efficiency in boosting institutional capacity such as recent introduction of online assessment of staff performance by Students and increasing Visibility through adequate instalment of fiber optics to research activities. The study addressed two research questions, and tested two null hypotheses. This study adopted survey research design. A total number of10803 (2765 Academic and 8038 non academic) staff from twelve faculties of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria formed the population of this study out of which a total number of 370 respondents were randomly sampled using simple random sampling technique. The researcher used observation (using checklist), interview and questionnaire technique in data collection. The researcher collected information from the registry regarding the above information as indices for institutional quality for global ranking. The research questions raised were analysed using descriptively using Frequencies, Percentages, mean and standard deviations while research hypotheses were tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significance with the aid of SPSS version 21.0. The result of findings revealed significant effect of Accreditation status andStability of Academic calendar on Global Ranking of Ahr.iadu Bello University, Zaria. On the bases of findings, the researcher recommended among others that-the university should make concerted effort to ensure that NUC fully accredited the remaining 30%.There is a need for the University to organize training inform of workshop, conference and seminar to academic and non academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria on benefit of university global ranking and how to rank universities based on indices
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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
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