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Implementation of Sociology Programme in Nigerian Public Universities: Problems and Solutions
Full text linkIn Nigeria, sociology programme is one among the programmes that are offer in the public universities with the aim of producing adequate manpower to man jobs in public institutions. The sociology programme is faced with some problems in the implementation process in some public universities. This article discusses the problems facing the implementation of sociology programme in the public universities in Nigeria. Secondary data were used to support the points raised in the article. The secondary data were generated from print materials and online publication. The article identified inadequate funding, inadequate academic staff, inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of instructional materials, brain-drain, strike actions, corruption and poor supervision as the problems facing the implementation of sociology programme in public universities in Nigeria. To solve this problems, the article recommended that the government should increase the funding of the sociology programme, employ more qualified lecturers, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, adequate instructional materials, fight all forms of corruptions, ensure effective supervision and implement all agreement with the different union groups in the public universities
Impact of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on Federal Universities’ Administration in Nigeria
No full textThis paper discussed the Impact of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on the federal universities administration in Nigeria. Secondary data were employed in the paper. The secondary data were collected from print and online publications. The paper concluded that the positive impact of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on the federal universities administration includes; a reduction of strikes in federal universities as a result of the management-labour union crisis over unpaid arrears, a reduction of corruption and reduction in administrative wastages. The paper also identified the negative impacts of the implementation of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on the federal universities administration including termination of appointment of contract staff, shortage of academic staff, slow in federal university administration and violation of federal universities autonomy. Based on the impacts identified, the paper hereby recommended that federal universities in Nigeria should be removed from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform and be granted full autonomy to operate according to global best practice
Impact of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on Federal Universities’ Administration in Nigeria
No full textThis paper discussed the Impact of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on the federal universities administration in Nigeria. Secondary data were employed in the paper. The secondary data were collected from print and online publications. The paper concluded that the positive impact of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on the federal universities administration includes; a reduction of strikes in federal universities as a result of the management-labour union crisis over unpaid arrears, a reduction of corruption and reduction in administrative wastages. The paper also identified the negative impacts of the implementation of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on the federal universities administration including termination of appointment of contract staff, shortage of academic staff, slow in federal university administration and violation of federal universities autonomy. Based on the impacts identified, the paper hereby recommended that federal universities in Nigeria should be removed from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform and be granted full autonomy to operate according to global best practice
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Challenges Preventing Academic Staff from using Information and Communication Technology (S) for Teaching in the Nigerian Public Universities and the way Forward
Full text linkInformation and Communication Technology(s) is one of the major resources adopted by the universities across the world for delivering teaching and conducting researches. The academic, non-academic staff and students use information and communication technology (s) for providing academic service and administrative functions. In Nigerian public universities, academic staff have not using information and communication technologies effectively for teaching and learning processes due to many problems. The article discussed the challenges preventing academic staff from using ICT(s) for teaching in the Nigerian public universities. Secondary data were used to provide empirical support to the point raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from print material and online publication from libraries and internet. The article identified: inadequate funding of ICT programme, inadequate ICT facilities, poor internet services, unstable electricity, high cost of ICT facilities, poor implementation of ICT educational policies, poor ICT literacy of academic staff and institutional corruption as the challenges preventing academic staff from using ICT(s) for teaching in the Nigerian public universities. To address this challenges, the article recommends as follow: adequate funding of ICT programme, provision of ICT infrastructural facilities, training and retraining programme for academic staff, subsiding ICT facilities for academic staff, ensure stable internet services, stable electricity supply, fight institutional corruption and implement all ICT policies in the Nigerian higher institutions
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Challenges Preventing Academic Staff from using Information and Communication Technology (S) for Teaching in the Nigerian Public Universities and the way Forward
No full textInformation and Communication Technology(s) is one of the major resources adopted by the universities across the world for delivering teaching and conducting researches. The academic, non-academic staff and students use information and communication technology (s) for providing academic service and administrative functions. In Nigerian public universities, academic staff have not using information and communication technologies effectively for teaching and learning processes due to many problems. The article discussed the challenges preventing academic staff from using ICT(s) for teaching in the Nigerian public universities. Secondary data were used to provide empirical support to the point raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from print material and online publication from libraries and internet. The article identified: inadequate funding of ICT programme, inadequate ICT facilities, poor internet services, unstable electricity, high cost of ICT facilities, poor implementation of ICT educational policies, poor ICT literacy of academic staff and institutional corruption as the challenges preventing academic staff from using ICT(s) for teaching in the Nigerian public universities. To address this challenges, the article recommends as follow: adequate funding of ICT programme, provision of ICT infrastructural facilities, training and retraining programme for academic staff, subsiding ICT facilities for academic staff, ensure stable internet services, stable electricity supply, fight institutional corruption and implement all ICT policies in the Nigerian higher institutions
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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