The recent world economic meltdown may result to a serious decline in the quality of open and distance education inNigeria. Huge amount of money is required to finance an effective and quality open and distance education. This paperascertained the different ways of diversification of educational funds to enhance the attainment of quality open and distanceeducation in Nigeria. Three research questions were used to guide the study and two hypotheses were formulated.Questionnaire was administered to a population of 120 staff of open and distance education in Enugu state of Nigeria. Meanstatistics was used to answer the research questions, and t-test analysis was to test the hypotheses. The result of the studyrevealed that public and private sectors as well as local income generation were the main sources of financing open anddistance education in Nigeria to offset the likely risks of its decline quality.
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Diversification of Educational Funds for Quality Assurance in Open and Distance Education in Nigeria | Journal of Educational and Social Research
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