BRAIN DRAIN AND PERFORMANCE OF STATE-OWNED UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH EAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study evaluated Brain drain and performance of state universities in south East, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to; Examine the relationship between leaving of educated staff for quality of life and quality of teaching and learning; evaluate the relationship between migration of high-quality lecturers for high salaries and visibility and identify the relationship between skilled staff movement to access advanced technology and mobility of academic researchers of state-owned universities in South East, Nigeria. The study used the survey approach and simple random sampling. The primary source of data was the administration of the questionnaire. The population of the study is three thousand two hundred and fifty (3250) which consists of selected lecturers both male and female of different carders in the selected universities. The sample size of three hundred and forty-four (344) was determined using Cochrian (1963) sampling technique at a 5 percent margin of error. Two hundred and eighty-one (281) staff returned the questionnaire accurately filled. Data were analyzed by mean score and standard deviation. The hypotheses were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). The findings indicated There was significance positive relationship between leaving of educated staff for quality of life and quality of teaching and learning in state owned universities in South East, Nigeria, ( r=.579 <.869, p<.05). There was significance positive relationship between migration of high quality lecturers for high salaries and visibility of state owned universities in South East, Nigeria, ( r=.725 <.841, p<.05). There was significance positive relationship between Skilled staff movement to access advanced technology and mobility of academic researchers staff of state owned universities in South East, Nigeria, ( r=.390 < .907, p<.05). The study concluded that the departure of educated staff, skilled staff movement, and migration of lecturers had significant negative relationship with quality of teaching and learning, visibility and mobility of academic researcher’s staff in state owned universities in South East, Nigeria