Challenges of Students' Off-campus Housing in Nigerian Universities: The University of Ilorin Experience
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2019
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Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye
Abstract
Housing, as one of the basic necessities of life, has been widely acknowledged to be
grossly inadequate both in quality and quantity. This is unarguably largely due to the
population explosion experienced the world over. The phenomenon has particularly
drawn much attention of research focus on students' housing across Nigerian tertiary
institutions, owning to the upsurge of admission seekers into these higher institutions of
learning. Due to the inability of management of institutions to provide enough on campus accommodation for students, a larger proportion of them are made to seek
solace in off-campus housing for their accommodation need. This study is, therefore, an
attempt on the challenges of off-campus housing in Nigerian Universities with reference
to the University of Ilorin. Data for the study were collected at 3 different areas of
student residency not far from the University gate. The purposive sampling method was
used to select students' hostel and random sampling method was thereafter used to
administer questionnaires on them. In all, 300 questionnaires were administered in ratio
3:2:1 in (closest: closer: close respectively) in term of proximity to the school gate. Data
were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, while descriptive statistics
such as frequency, percentage, pie chart and chi square were used to present result. One
Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to establish the variation among the
condition of housing in the three selected areas. Results showed that students were faced
with a number of challenges such as epileptic power supply, high cost of rent, delay in
getting to and fro school and insecurity among others. ANOVA results indicate
significant variation in conditions of houses in the residential areas with p values of
0.000, 0.000, 0.034, 0.023, 0.000 and 0.000 for condition of roof, availability of kitchen,
laundry and bathroom and condition of floor and wall respectively. It, conversely, shows
that room size does not vary significantly at p = 0.079 at 0.005 confidence level. The
study concludes by recommending Public Private Partnership strategy by the
University in providing more on-campus housing, procurement of more mass transit
means of transport and partnership with landlords in students' residential areas on the
provision of security among other solutions to engender environmental sustainability.
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Challenges, Housing, Insecurity, Off-campus, Sustainability, Challenges, Housing, Insecurity, Off-campus, Sustainability