Managing Tertiary Education in the Era of Economic Hardship in Nigeria: Implication for Tertiary Education Administrators

Abstract

This paper explores the various survival strategies tertiary institutions administrators in Nigeria can adopt to effectively manage the tertiary institutions under their watch. The paper is a review paper. The paper used secondary data to support every point raised. The paper employed systematic review system to collect data online and in the print resources. The paper identified improvement in internally generated revenue, black of financial wastages in the system, adopt public private partnership model, collaborate and partner with alum association and seek financial support from private and international organizations, mergerlization of  units with similar objectives and expansion of academic programme. Based on the findings, the paper recommends that the government should increase the budgetary allocation to the tertiary institutions. Tertiary institutions administrators should only implement programme that have profitable to the institutions. Tertiary institutions administrators should curtain all form of financial wastages in the system by setting up effective monitoring units. Tertiary institutions administrators should merge units and directorate with similar objectives to reduce operational cost in the system.