MANAGING FEDERAL UNIVERSITY EDUCATION USING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR CAPACITY BUILDING IN SOUTHEAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined the benefits and the challenges of using new technologies in university management. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Data were collected from 5 heads of departments and 283 lecturers from the department of educational management in federal universities in South–East, Nigeria who served as the respondents. The size of the population was manageable, so there was no need for sampling.The instrument used was a structured questionnaire that consisted of 15 items. Using mean, the research questions were answered, while the hypotheses were tested using z-test statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed among other things that using new technologies in managing federal universities significantly promote staff capacity building.  It was thus recommended that conditions that necessitate teachers and students optimal performance should not be removed from them  and that conditions  should be provided for effective capacity building among staff and students  to meet up with the societal  demands for skill acquisition and capacity building.