AN ASSESSMENT OF AUTONOMY AND FREEDOM IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
AN ASSESSMENT OF AUTONOMY AND FREEDOM IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Summary/Abstract: This is an assessment of Autonomy and Freedom in managing Nigerian Universities. The study was based on organization theory, which emphasizes that every organization has some level of autonomy and freedom to handle its affairs. The primary data collected through the use of the questionnaire method and standard interview method were analyzed using frequencies and chi-square. The research found that proponents of autonomy are of the view that the call for the government to relinquish autonomy to universities recognize that the right to autonomy is not absolute, but rather conditional on the government's obligation for greater university funding in particular and for determining the goals and broad outlines of higher education in Nigeria in general. The study also discovered that university autonomy craves the indulgence of government to reposition its university agencies to better fulfil their responsibilities by way of assisting to provide adequate funding, well-articulated policies, plans and machinery that would ensure the attainment of university goals and objectives with minimal interference. However, the government must revisit the same law to fully capture financial autonomy, allowing universities to generate funds through a reasonable cost-sharing approach while the government maintains its legitimate role of adequately funding universities to train and retain quality manpower for the country's overall economic and social development.

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