IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE WASTAGE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA. Eneogu, Njideka .D.

IMPACT OF HUMAN RESOURCE WASTAGE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:

A STUDY OF UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA.

 

Eneogu, Njideka .D.

Department of Social Science Education

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

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Ugwuanyi, Benedict .E.

Department Of Social Science Education

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

 

Abstract

The study investigated the perceptions of the academic staff and students’ of University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) on the  areas of human resource wastage, causes, and impact on the sustainable development effort in Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey. The population of the study consisted of 989 300 level undergraduate students and 1,413 academic staff from the nine faculties in UNN. Proportionate random sampling was used to draw 200 students and 80 academic staff from four sampled faculties. Four research questions guided the study. Two structured questionnaires developed by the researcher were used for data collection and the data collected were analyzed using mean and frequencies. The findings were that students’ drop out, overstay of students’, repetition of courses, recruitment of unqualified academic staff, absenteeism of staff from work,  redundant academic staff and so on are the areas of human resource wastages in UNN. Also the causes of these wastages as revealed from the findings were,  poor work condition, poor remuneration, lack of teacher-student relationship, misguided education, weak infrastructure, inadequate on-the-job training among other. The implications of these wastages to sustainable development include, increase in public and private cost of education, increase in poverty level, unemployment among others. It was also revealed that inability to eradicate poverty, increase in social disunity, low environmental protection and so on were the impact of human resource wastages on sustainable development. It was recommended that universities should incorporate sustainable development issues in there programme and frequently organize seminar on work ethics and also to educate the staff and students on the responsibility in achieving sustainable development.

 

Key words: Human Resource Wastage, Sustainable Development, Tertiary Education.