Periscoping Partnership in Southwestern Nigerian University (Published)
Universities employ partnership to bridge the gap between university education demand and supply. Therefore, this study investigated periscoping partnership in southwestern Nigerian Universities. The population for the study comprised all staff from the 16 public universities (federal and state owned) in south west geo-political zone of Nigeria. Multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted to select the respondents for the study. Questionnaire tagged Periscoping. Partnership in Southwestern Nigerian Universities Questionnaire (PPSNUQ) was used to elicit response from the respondents. The instrument was validated with the assistance of experts in items generation. The reliability index of the instrument used was 0.83. The study found that availability of partner agencies was significantly influence the development and management of universities in southwestern Nigeria and that there was a significant influence of partner agencies participatory strategies adopted and management of universities in southwestern Nigeria. The study recommends that public-private partnership need to be more encouraged in the provision of university education and that the government need to adopt strategies to control the activities and operations of private universities in southwestern, Nigeria.
Keywords: Partnership, participatory strategies, partner agencies, persicoping
The reality of the partnerships between the family and the school in the Northern Ghore Directorate and the most important mechanisms proposed for development from principals’ point of view (Published)
The study aimed to know the reality of the partnerships between the family and the school in the Directorate of the northern Ghore , and the obstacles that prevent its effectiveness, and to present the most important mechanisms proposed for its development, from the point of view of the principals, the sample was randomly selected and made up of (58) directors, and used the study The descriptive analytical approach through the resolution which included (40) paragraph divided in three axes, and the study showed that the reality of the partnerships between the family and the school in the Directorate of the northern Ghore came to a moderate degree, because there are many obstacles that limit its effectiveness’s , most notably: poor role In emphasizing the importance of the partnership between the school and the family, and the weak training programs needed to deal with the family, the results of the study indicated that the most important mechanisms proposed for the development of the partnership between the family and the school: providing the family with periodic reports about their children’s school levels, activating the communication Between the family and the school through meetings and contacts, and creating an administrative function at the school centered on the activation of partnership and coordination with the family.
Keywords: Directorate, North Ghore, Partnership, School, family