Inflation, Academic Staff Job Performance and Students’ Academic Work in Tertiary Education in Nigeria

Abstract

Purpose: This study examined the impact of inflation on academic staff job performance and students’ academic work in tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

Method: The paper is a review study. The paper depended on secondary data that was collected from government documents, print resources and online publications. Content analysis was used to narrow the literature to the theme of the study.

Findings: The paper found that inflation in Nigeria has negatively impacted on the academic staff job performance in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The paper also revealed that inflation has affected students’ academic works in the various tertiary institutions in Nigeria.

Recommendations: Government should increase the salaries of academic staff in all the Nigerian tertiary institutions to enable them to cope with the high cost of living and school buses should be provided in all tertiary institutions for both staff and students. Government should implement the students’ loan programme and state government and local government should implement bursaries programme for their students nationwide.