Functional tertiary education as correlate of economic development

U.F. Mbon

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The study aimed at investigating the relationship between functional tertiary education and economic development. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study comprised all the students in University of Calabar, University of Uyo and Cross River University of Technology. The sample of the study was made up of 300 students purposively selected from the three tertiary institutions. Two hypotheses were formulated and tested in the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled “Functional Tertiary Education and Economic Development Questionnaire (FTEEDQ). The instrument was subjected to face validity and reliability test using Test-Retest method and was found reliable at 0.78 r-value. Pearson Product Moment correlation Statistics (r) was used for data analysis at 0.05 level of significance. Result obtained revealed a significant relationship between man-power production, knowledge management and economic development. Based on this result, it was recommended that tertiary institutions should be re-designed to boost the production of functional human resources to fast track economic development among other things.

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