FUNDING AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AS DETERMINANTS OF UNION-MANAGEMENT DICHOTOMY IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN EKITI STATE

The study examined funding and educational facilities as determinants of staffmanagement dichotomy in tertiary institutions in Ekiti State. 450 subjects consisted of 390 members of unions were selected using proportional stratified sampling techniques and 60 top management staff of the selected institutions was selected purposively. Two self-designed instruments namely; “Trade Unions and management of Tertiary Institutions Questionnaire (TUMTIQ) and “Management of Tertiary Institutions Questionnaire (MTIQ)” were used to collect relevant data from the subjects. The face and content validity was done by experts in Educational Management and Test and Measurement in Ekiti State University. Also testretest method of reliability was adopted with reliability coefficient of 0.66 and 0.72 respectively. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential Statistics and the two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that there was significant relationship between trade Unions’ disharmony with funding and management of tertiary institutions. The study also revealed that there was significant relationship between trade unions’ disagreement with provision of educational facilities and management of tertiary institutions. Base on the findings of this study, it was recommended that government (at all levels) should increase the budgetary allocation to education. Besides, Tertiary institutions in the state should find means of boosting their Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to complement government’s subvention to the institutions. With increase in funding, the problem of inadequate educational facilities will be a thing of the past