Managing Nigerian Universities for Better Students’ Participation in Voluntary Community Services

Participation in voluntary organizations

Economic theories explaining participation have focused on individual preferences, private and public failures as explanations for participation in voluntary organizations. These theories do not look at the relevance of the institutions that affect public and market failures that in turn, affect participation. My essay considers and empirically examines the effect those different institutions a...

Gender Differences in Computer Literacy Among Clinical Medical Students in Selected Southern Nigerian Universities

Perception of Self-Directed Cooperative Learning Among Undergraduate Students in Selected Nigerian Universities

The current emphasis in the promotion of school learning is on the active involvement of the learners in the learning process. Helping students to develop interest in self-directed cooperative learning is considered to be one of the ways to enhance active learning. This study sought to investigate the views of selected undergraduate education students on the value and constraints of cooperative...

Characteristics and study motivation of clinical dental students in Nigerian universities.

A cross-sectional study of a cohort of 197 clinical dental students in the four accredited dental schools in Nigeria was conducted to determine the sociodemographic characteristics of these dental students and their motives for the choice of dentistry. The results indicate that the number of female dental students in Nigeria is increasing, which reflects a trend well established in virtually al...

Leadership Aspects of Hidden Curriculum Students Practice in Nigerian Universities: A Preview of Students’ Union Government Contributions in University Governance

The paper examined the leadership aspect of Hidden Curriculum that students practice in Nigerian Universities and their contributions to university governance. Four research questions guided the study and Ex-Post-Facto Method was adopted as the design. Unstructured interviews with staff/students officials cum critical analysis of Students’ Union Bye-Law document were the method of data collecti...