Stakeholders’ Support and Academic System Optimisation: Interrogating The Issues in Public Universities
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The significance of having a viable academic system, particularly at the university level cannot be overstated. This is because apart from enhancing self-confidence in teaching, learning, and research, the skills and knowledge acquired open opportunities for personal career development, social responsibility, and greater prospects of harnessing vital resources for the economic success of the country. Even with the many ambitious educational initiatives designed by government institutions and other key players to guarantee the intended results, there is still much room for improvement in the value that the universities add and create. This paper aims to optimise the benefits of teaching, learning and other mandates of universities, as academic systems, and provide paths that shift from the current narrative to produce desired alternative outcomes. Participant observation as well as systematic desk research were used to raise stakeholders' support concerns in a thematic format to interrogate the issues working against the achievement of academic system optimisation in public universities in Nigeria. It was suggested amongst other things that, resolving the inter-influencing stakeholders' support concerns about important stakeholders such as students, lecturers, institutional policymakers, professional bodies, and society at large, will provide the necessary boost for academic system optimisation.
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