Teaching Staff Attrition among the Generations of Universities in South West Nigerian Universities

Abstract

Teaching Staff Attrition is an essential indicator of inefficiency in the educational system, and the patterns it takes among the generations of Universities may make achievement of policy objectives for establishing some universities difficult. This paper discusses the teaching staff attrition among the generations of universities in South West Nigerian Universities. Data were collected from the multi-stage sampled population and analyzed using attrition rate (rate statistic). The situational analysis of teaching staff attrition was looked at from the academic discipline and staff ranks. Teaching staff attrition is an important educational planning indicator in the area of preventing brain drain syndrome that will make the educational system inefficient. It was therefore recommended that recruitment and retention strategies that would enhance realization of policy aim for establishing universities should be enforced, while academic disciplines and teaching staff ranks biased policy must be put in place to check teaching staff attrition.