Influencing Factors of Women Enrolment in Higher Education Programmes: A Study at the National Open University of Nigeria | Chapter 5 | Progress in Language, Literature and Education Research Vol. 1

 The purpose of the study search out determine the components that affect the enlistment of women in graduate programs at the National Open University of Nigeria. One in all five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria. Even though basic instruction is officially free and binding, about 10.5 million of the country’s juveniles aged 5-14 age are not in school. Only 61 percent of 6-11 period-olds regularly accompany primary school and only 35.6 portion of children old 36-59 months receive early juvenility instruction. In the north of the country, account is even bleaker, accompanying a net attendance rate of 53 percent. Getting out-of-school teenagers back into education poses a large challenge. The only university in Nigeria that uses entirely open and distant education is the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). In many countries, open and faraway education has become an essential component of the instructional system. In this type of education, the teacher and the junior are physically separate for a sizable portion of the course. The undergraduate may study at any time and wherever they pick using this somewhat demand. Women now have more approach to education as a first or second hope thanks to open and aloof learning. In order to study for a recognition, a bachelor's degree, or a college degree, many women in Nigeria have registered in the open and faraway learning programs of the National Open University of Nigeria. This study is curious in the fair of the factors that influence the enrolment of girls into higher education programmes of the National Open University of Nigeria. The study is a explanatory survey design. Four research questions guided the study. The culture comprised of all the daughters who are either registered or have completed a Bachelors or Masters grade in the National Open University of Nigeria. Snowball and purposive savoring procedures were used to recognize the mothers for the study, from the five (5) selected study centres of the academy in the South-east geopolitical district of the country. The sample was made up of society (400) women the one have enrolled and those the one have gone through the academy’s higher education programme. A self-devised and validated inquiry was secondhand for data accumulation. Interviews and focus group conferences were also secondhand for data accumulation. The reliability of the mechanism was established utilizing Cronbach Alpha formula. The dependability was 0.78. Descriptive enumerations were used to analyze the dossier collected. The judgments revealed that the need to achieve higher aptitude for promotion in the institution, peer influence, flexibility of open and educational course by mail and the nature of the effort requirements of National Open University of Nigeria were the bigger private, socio-economic and bland factors doing the enrolment of women. The study likewise revealed that the girls were faced accompanying two major challenges that is to say; combining their studies accompanying family blames, and lack of enough computer abilities. Suggestions were made on by what method to ameliorate the challenges, so concerning encourage more wives to embrace open and email.

Author(s) Details:

Chibuogwu V. Nnaka,
National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria.

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