Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal
Vol-02, Issue-04 (Oct -Dec 2024)
An International scholarly/ academic journal, peer-reviewed/ refereed journal, ISSN : 2960-0006
Impact Of Brain Drain and Factors Contributing to Migration of Staff Abroad in The University of Ibadan
Akande, Olumuyiwa A.1
1Tourism and Development Programme, Department of Sustainability Studies,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Ukpabi, Ihezie Donatus2
2Department of Adult Education, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Adeolu, Obisesan John3
3Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59231/edumania/9072
Page Number: pp. 47-56
Subject: Higher Education, Human Resource Management, Labor Economics, Migration Studies, Brain Drain
Received: 14 January 2024
Accepted: 10 April 2024
Published: 01 October 2024
Thematic Classification: Social Sciences: Education & Economics; Migration Studies
Abstracts
This study examines the impact of brain drainage and factors contributing to migration of universities staff abroad. A Well-structured questionnaire was developed to gather information needed from the universities staff in the University of Ibadan. The result shows that migration of university staff abroad is not owned to perceived gender discrimination but is owned to insecurity, naira fall, political and economic instability, unfriendly working condition and insufficient wages. Furthermore, there is evidence of increased willingness to relocate among those that are yet to relocate with no evidence of any educational career development opportunities which has the potential of reducing brain drainage if it is sufficiently available. Thus, the study recommends the provision of educational career development opportunities in government fight against brain drainage
Keywords: Brain drainage, Migration
Impact statement
The effect of brain drainage cannot be overemphasized as it reduce staff strength, worsening working conditions in terms of lecturers-to-students’ ratio to the end of reducing academic quality of students’ produced. The research’s impact is inherent in proposing means of stemming brain drainage. The research discovered that educational career development opportunities have the potential of reducing brain drainage. Thus recommend to concerns authority to provide more of these career opportunities in the fight against brain drainage among university staffs.
About The Author
Akande Olumuyiwa, is a lecturer one in the Department of Sustainability Studies at the university of Ibadan. He is a Phd holder
Ukpabi donatus, is a lecturer I at the university of Ibadan. With the periods under review has about twenty publications in renowned journals including offshore journals. He is a Phd holder specialsed in industrial relation
Obisesan John Adeolu is a student of the Department of Statistics, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Biometry from the same Department in the same Institution. He is a prospective PhD students
Cite this Article
APA (7th ed.): Akande, O. A., Ukpabi, I. D., & Adeolu, O. J. (2024). Impact Of Brain Drain and Factors Contributing to Migration of Staff Abroad in The University of Ibadan. Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal, 2(4), 47–56. https://doi.org/10.59231/edumania/9072
Chicago (17th ed.): Akande, Olumuyiwa A., Ihezie Donatus Ukpabi, and Obisesan John Adeolu. “Impact Of Brain Drain and Factors Contributing to Migration of Staff Abroad in The University of Ibadan.” Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal 2, no. 4 (2024): 47–56. https://doi.org/10.59231/edumania/9072.
MLA (9th ed.): Akande, Olumuyiwa A., et al. “Impact Of Brain Drain and Factors Contributing to Migration of Staff Abroad in The University of Ibadan.” Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal, vol. 2, no. 4, 2024, pp. 47–56. https://doi.org/10.59231/edumania/9072.
Statements & Declarations
Peer Review: The scholarly merit and contribution of this manuscript to the understanding of brain drain in higher education have been confirmed through a rigorous and independent peer-review process.
Review Type: This article underwent a double-blind peer review, a process in which the identities of the authors (Akande, Olumuyiwa A., Ukpabi, Ihezie Donatus, and Adeolu, Obisesan John) and the reviewers were mutually concealed. The review was conducted by subject experts in higher education administration and labor economics.
Competing Interests: The authors, Akande, Olumuyiwa A., Ukpabi, Ihezie Donatus, and Adeolu, Obisesan John, collectively and individually declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Data Availability: The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, O.A. Akande, upon reasonable request. The data are not publicly available due to privacy and ethical restrictions concerning the participating staff members of the University of Ibadan.
Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. The work was completed using the authors’ institutional resources and personal scholarly efforts.
License: This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International License. This license permits copying and redistribution of the material in any medium or format for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and it does not permit adaptation or remixing of the material.
Ethical Approval: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee. Ethical approval for this research was granted by the Institutional Review Board of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, where all authors were affiliated at the time of the research. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study, and their anonymity has been strictly maintained.
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