Student Enrolment and Academic Staff Productivity in Public Universities in Lagos State, Nigeria
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Student Enrolment, Academic Staff ProductivityAbstract
The aim of this study was to establish the influence of student enrolment on academic staff productivity in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria. Correlational and descriptive research designs were employed, and the study
population was 2459 academic staff in the two public universities in Lagos State. The sample size of 240 was purposively chosen after disproportionately stratifying into faculties and thereafter selecting through the simple random sampling technique. Two instruments were used to collect data after ensuring their validity and establishing the reliability of only one of them. The Academic Staff Productivity Questionnaire (ASPQ) was found reliable with 0.760 coefficient using Cronbach’s Alpha test. Data collected were analysed using inferential statistics of regression model to test the formulated hypothesis at 0.05 probability level. The finding was that there is a positive and significant influence of student enrolment on academic staff productivity in public
universities in Lagos State, Nigeria (R = 0.551, p < 0.05) with R2 = 0.304 that explained 30.4% of the variations in academic staff productivity as a result of student enrolment. Based on this finding, the study concluded that student
enrolment in public universities in Lagos State, Nigeria, have moderately and positively influenced academic staff productivity. Hence, the study recommended that as enrolment rises, the federal and state governments must
continue to increase the number of academic staff on various programmes and increase educational facilities to improve lecturers' productivity. Moreover, the management of public universities must adopt policies to control enrolment ratios on both academic staff and material resources so that lecturers' productivity in public universities is not negatively influenced by increased enrolment.
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