EJHEAA
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2024): European Journal of Higher Education and Academic Advancement

Programme Accreditation in Tertiary Education

Niyi Jacob Ogunode (Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, University of Abuja, Nigeria)
Kingsley Edinoh (Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Abuja, Nigeria)
RAUF, Olaiya Sarafadeen (Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Abuja, Nigeria)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Aug 2023

Abstract

Programme accreditation is crucial to tertiary institutions because of its ability to ensure quality assurance in the system. Programme accreditation is a mechanism designed in the tertiary institutions to ensure that academic programmes offered are of standard and meet various policies and quality of national and international standard. This paper discussed the barriers to effective programme accreditation in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Employing secondary data that were obtained from online publications and print resources. The paper concluded that inadequate funding, shortage of academic staff, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain and strike actions are the barriers to effective programme accreditation in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Based on these barriers identified, the paper recommended the following; increment in budgetary allocation to the tertiary institutions, employment of more adequate staff, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, increment in salaries and welfare allowances of academic staff and implementation of agreement entered into with various unions in the tertiary institutions to prevent strike actions.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EJHEAA

Publisher

Subject

Education

Description

European Journal of Higher Education and Academic Advancement is an open-access, peer-reviewed international journal that offers comprehensive coverage of theoretical and empirical studies of higher education in Europe, comparative research within Europe, and comparisons between European and ...