Volume 12, Issue 2, 2024

Accessibility to Quality Education as a Panacea To Poverty Eradication Among Admission Seekers in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Oketunbi Okeyode Abraham, Awolola Oluwatoyin Isaiah, Okemakinde Timothy

Abstract

Poverty exists all over the world particularly in developing countries where it seems there is poor accessibility to education. Thus, this study investigated the accessibility to quality education as a panacea to poverty eradication among admission seekers in the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of study comprises of all students in the University of Ibadan, Ibadan. Multi Stage sampling Techniques was adopted for the study. Three faculties were randomly selected from the 6 existing Faculties in the University of Ibadan. In each Faculty, five departments were randomly selected through simple random sampling techniques. A total of 15 departments were used for the study. In each department, 10 undergraduates were randomly selected through simple random sampling techniques. A total of 150 undergraduates were used for the study. The instrument labelled “Accessibility to Quality Education Poverty Eradication among Undergraduates Questionnaire (AQEPEUQ)” was used to elicit information from the respondents. The analysis was done using simple percentage analysis. The findings revealed that factors of accessibility to education among admission seekers in the University of Ibadan included students’ choice, parental factors, institutional factor, students’ admission qualifications and admission guidelines. It was established that poor education accessibility leads to high level of indiscipline among unadmitted students, qualified students were been left out of educational system and that poverty reduces the employability of the affected unadmitted students. However, creating new tertiary institutions to allow better entry, providing easy payment measures for less privileged and adequate funding of education by government were strategies identified by respondents as ways of improving accessibility to education. Likewise, scholarship/sponsorship by other education stakeholders such as cooperate organisations can improve education accessibility. The conclusion was that admission seekers faced a lot of challenges which have emotional impact on their accessibility to education and passable remedies must be provided. Recommendations were made that there is need for government to establish more new tertiary institutions, need for student loan scheme and need regular and adequate funding of education by government. All these when implemented would uphold education accessibility among admission seekers in the area of study and Nigeria as a whole.

Keywords

Admission seekers, Poverty eradication, Funding, Accessibility, Quality education

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