Influence of Catholic Universities on Moral Conduct of Students in Catholic Universities in the South East Zone of Nigeria
Keywords:
Management of Education by the white Christian Missionaries in Nigeria, Return of Schools to Voluntary Agencies in Nigeria, History of higher education in Nigeria, Influence of Catholic Universities on restoration of Moral Conduct in Catholic Universities in Nigeria.Abstract
This paper investigated the influence of catholic universities on moral conduct of students in catholic universities in the south east zone of Nigeria. Madonna University was chosen as catholic university in the south east zone of Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was used for this study. Population of this study comprised of 8,000 students obtained from the three campuses of Madonna University Nigeria. Sample size of this study is 150, which comprised 6 males and females students obtained from 10 departments in Madonna University Nigeria. Instrument for data collection is a researcher developed questionnaire titled “influence of catholic universities on moral conduct of students in catholic universities in the south east zone of Nigeria” was used. The instrument was validated by two experts from Imo state University Owerri. Crobach alpha statistical technique was used to ascertain the reliability coefficients. The reliability coefficients were 0.78 and 0.98 which shows that the instrument is reliable to be used for this study. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data generated, while chi-square test was used to test the hypothesis. It was recommended from this study that government should assist in providing more teaching and learning facilities in catholic universities. This would enable private universities provide more sound teaching and learning to students in catholic universities in Nigeria especially in the south east zone of Nigeria. Also, catholic universities should inculcate more moral training on their students. This would help to reduce promiscuous living among youths in Nigeria especially in the south east zone of Nigeria.
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