Educational Policies and Academic Staff Capacity Development in Federal Universities in Nigeria.pdf

In education, capacity development has been usually associated with the development of the human competence, the creation and strengthening of educational institutions. For planning and delivery of educational services. Education enables high skillfulness of human resource that enhances input maximization which brings unquantifiable benefits to individuals in the societies. Premised on the above. This study was carried out to investigate educational policies and Academe Staff Capacity Development in Federal Universities in Nigeria, with emphasis on University of Calabar and University of Uyo. To achieve the purpose of this study, two research questions were raised and converted to null hypotheses to guide the study. Related literature were reviewed. Expost facto research design was adopted for the study. Satisfied random sample technique research and sample size of 620 academic staff was used for the study. Educational Policies and Academic Staff Capacity Development Questionnaire (EPASCDQ) was used for Data collection, after being subjected to face validity and reliability coefficient ranged from 0.74 to 0.82. Data collected was analyzed using mean and percentages, a criterion mean of 2.5 was used as a decision rule to test the two null hypotheses. The findings revealed that in-service training and research grant significantly influence academic staff capacity development. The study recommended among others, that government and the management of institution of higher learning should make provision for on the job training and provide research grant to their employees to enable staff intellectual capacity for high productivity.