EVALUATION OF AVAILABILITY AND MAINTENANCE OF FACILITIES IN TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA.

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2014-05
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IBRAHIM, MUSA,
MUHAMMAD.
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The study was on the, “Evaluation of availability and Maintenance of Facilities in Tertiary Institutions in Kaduna State”. The study was set to examine the availability and maintenance of learning facilities, teaching facilities, welfare facilities, and sport facilities, among others. Research question such as what are the available learning facilities and their status of maintenance in tertiary institutions in Kaduna state, what are the available welfare service facilities and their status of maintenance in the tertiary institutions in Kaduna state were drawn respectively. The research design used was the survey method; the population of the study was 57967 and member of population made up of administrative staff, staff [academic staff and non academic staff] and students. The sample comprised of 339, instrument employed to gather relevant data was a questionnaire designed by the researcher. Simple descriptive statistical method of analysis was used to analysis data collected. To give the general description of the data frequency tables and simple percentages were used. Six hypotheses were formulated and tested using Analysis of variance (ANOVA). The main findings of the study revealed that some of the facilities were inadequate, while some are not available at all; the ones available were not maintained and were only used occasionally. It was basically revealed that what was indicated as available by the respondents were mainly dilapidated structures and not maintained facilities. In view of the above it was recommended that Government should form committees for the renovation of structures and facilities in Tertiary Institutions in Kaduna State, government should increase funds in annual estimate and budgets separate from normal allocation. Management staff of institution should imbibe culture of proper maintenance of institutions facilities. Monitoring team should be formed which should comprise management staff, academic staff, non academic staff and students for maintenance of facilities in the institutions.
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EVALUATION ,, AVAILABILITY,, MAINTENANCE,, FACILITIES,, TERTIARY,, EDUCATIONAL,, INSTITUTIONS,, KADUNA,, STATE,, , NIGERIA
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