Educational Services Deregulation, Admission Criteria and Quality of Products in Nigerian Universities

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of deregulation of educational services, admission criteria and quality of products in both public and private universities. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Data were elicited based on the following variables as they relate to ensuring admission criteria and quality of products. The theoretical framework of the study is based on public interest theory of deregulation, the design of the study is ex-post facto while the population of the study is all academic administrators in both public and private universities in the study area, and the sample size is 714. Questionnaire titled: “Deregulation of provision of Provision of Educational Services and Quality Assurance in Nigerian Universities†is the main instrument used for generating data. The instrument was subjected to scrutiny by three experts. T-test statistic was used to test the two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The results show that there is a significant difference in the mean rating of academic administrators in public and private universities in deregulation of educational services on admission criteria as well as quality of products in Nigerian universities.

Keywords: Deregulation, Educational services, Admission criteria, Quality of products, Nigerian universities.