Marketing of Higher Education Services: Students' Opinion towards Repositioning Public Universities for Global Competitiveness
Author(s)
Andy Fred Wali* (Department of Business Administration, Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria), Emmanuel A. Amangala(Department of Marketing, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria) and Obabuike Ikeni Nkpurukwe((Department of Business Administration, Federal University Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria) *Corresponding author's Email
Wali, Andy Fred; Amangala, Emmanuel A. and Nkpurukwe, Obabuike Ikeni (2020), “Marketing of Higher Education Services: Students' Opinion towards Repositioning Public Universities for Global Competitiveness”, MERC Global’s International Journal of Management, Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 125-132.
Article history
Submitted: March 20, 2020, Revision received: May 12, 2020, Accepted: May 26, 2020
This study investigates the marketisation of public universities drawing from Nigeria students’ learning experiences. The study adopted the interpretive paradigm and the population comprises students from 4 public universities in two states in South-South Nigeria. The purposive sampling was used to identify three categories of students in each of these universities, which is undergraduate, postgraduate (Master and Doctoral students) and 4 focus group interviews were conducted. Content and thematic template analysis techniques were employed to analyse the data with the use of NVivo 11. The study revealed that students’ learning experiences in these sampled institutions were unsupportive of global best practices for international marketisation of academic services of public universities in Nigeria. The key themes that validate these experiences include: infrastructure deficit, poor tutors’ commitment; unprofessionalism and inadequate training amongst others and recommendations are suggested in line with these themes.
Keywords
Marketisation, Students learning, Public universities, Nigeria.
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