Abstract

This paper explores Negative Impact of ASUU Strike on students' academic performance in tertiary institutions. The negative impact of strike action usually pose a lot of negative effects on the student's academic performance. This is because the period that should been used to teach the students is spent at home all in the name of strike. This makes it impossible to cover the course work at the end of the semester, the students come out of school with lesser knowledge than they ought to have acquired, thereby making it very hard for them to compete with their counterparts that finished from private schools. The comparative assessment on negative impact of ASUU strike includes: disruptions of the academic calendar, exclude institution from global collaboration, degrade education quality, prolong course duration, affect students mental health, and impose financial burden on parents. The research design used was survey. The sample for the study was hundred (200) students, across two Federal and two State University. The instrument used in this study was Likert Scale, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. The data collected via questionnaires and analysed using Mean and Standard Deviation. The findings of this research are expected to contribute to policy discussion on the negative impact of ASUU strike on students' academic performance in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. By providing empirical data on the role of the government. This study offers practical recommendations that condition of service and working environment in tertiary institution should be improved by government to enhance the dignity of labour for the staff, cordial relationship and effective measures should be put on ground by government, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) etc. to check incessant strike action in the educational system.

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Strike Actions Academic performance tertiary Institution Consequently lead to students' examination malpractice corruption and other social vices in the society and this has always subjected the students to pitiable conditions disrupting academic programs giving students' undeserved extension in their study years causing poor students' concentration on academic programs and poor lecturer-student relationships amongst

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