Abuses in Outsourcing Processes: Roles of Institutional Managers

Abstract

Tertiary institutions in Nigeria suffer from insufficient funding to carry out their mandate of preparing high-level manpower. [1]These institutions receive yearly budget provisions from the government, which are paltry and far below the required funding. It also benefits from the government' introduced funding source (TETFund). Despite these, funding provisions are far below the suggested percentage of annual budgets, as advised by the World Bank and UNESCO, which negatively affect the effective delivery of education at that level. To overcome funding problems, institutions now engage in outsourcing services to save cost, improve quality and free themselves from services that had hitherto prevented its maximal delivery at equipping students. Abuses that can occur in the outsourcing process were highlighted, while suggestions to mitigate the abuses were given. The suggestions include; institutional managers being exposed to implementing robust governance frameworks in outsourcing processes, ensuring competitive bidding, and maintaining strict monitoring systems to detect and prevent abuses among many others