Agencies Governing the University Education System in Nigeria: An Examination of their Administrative Powers, Conflicts and Advocacies

Muftahu Jibirin Salihu

Abstract


The purpose of this study is to explore and examine the administrative powers of the agencies and bodies regulating the operations of university education in Nigeria and discuss the conflict between the agencies in advocating university autonomy. The researcher used secondary data through relevant literature to obtain information about the different acts and laws governing the university education system in Nigeria for a content analysis. The paper discovered different issues and challenges such as the daunting tasks of addressing the tertiary education governance procedures and structures to make institutional openness to a wide range of university stakeholders possible. Similarly, the policy of the Nigerian university education was confronted with a lack of freedom in administration due to act articles’ conflicting and overlapping issues of mishandling and similarity of functions. Consequently, the paper discussed and analysed several attempts to observe these similarities for amendment of the autonomy of university system in Nigeria as a lasting solution.


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