Social Deprivations and Access to Life-Saving Facilities Among Tertiary Students in Ilorin, Kwara State
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2017
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Department of Publishing and Web Development, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Abstract
The study empirically finds out incidences, causes and impacts of social deprivation
among undergraduates in public and private universities in Ilorin, Kwara State.
From the population of undergraduates in the three randomly selected federal, state
and private universities located in the state capital, random sampling technique was
used to sample a total of 645 respondents out of which only 409 said they felt
socially deprived. Data was collected using a questionnaire instrument which had
four sections. The collected data were analyzed using percentages. Findings show
that 65.36% of undergraduates in federal university, 81.81% of that in-state
university and 40.21% of the private university of the three types of the university said they
had been deprived against in all areas of their lives. It was recommended that
the government should come up with policies that can eradicate social deprivations
among tertiary students in Nigeria.
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Keywords, Impacts, life-saving facilities, life-saving facilities, social deprivation, social deprivation, tertiary students, tertiary students