Retirement Education for Sustainable Livelihood Among Staff of the University of Nigeria: Adult Education Perspective

Authors

  • Kingsley Asogu Ogbonnaya (Ph.D) Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  • Oninyechi E. Okoye Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  • Ogochukwu Vivian Nwaubani Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  • Ann E Okechukwu Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  • Elizabeth E. Obiozor Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
  • Chibuike Darl Ochiagha Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Keywords:

Retirement , Education, Livelihood, Staff, Challenges

Abstract

This research was carried out in order to ascertain retirement education for sustainable livelihood among staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The design adopted was descriptive survey research design. The population of the study was all the entire staff of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The sample size for the study was 284 staff, of which 133 academic staff and 153 non-academic staff from three faculties (Education, Social Sciences, and Arts). A simple random sampling technique was used to draw out three faculties from the nine faculties, and a convenient sampling technique was then used to administer the instrument to staff that was available to fill out the questionnaire. The instrument used for the study was the retirement education questionnaire (REQ) with three clusters: packages available for retirees (5 question items), challenges facing retirees (9 question items), and supplementary livelihood strategies before retirement (10 question items). Using Cronbach Alpha, a reliability result of 0.79 was obtained for cluster A, 0.82 for cluster B, and 0.78 for cluster C, which means that the three clusters are reliable. The mean for the three clusters was 0.80. A mean and standard deviation were used to answer the three research questions that guided the study, while a t-test was used to test the hypotheses at a 0.05 significance level.

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2022-12-18

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Kingsley Asogu Ogbonnaya (Ph.D), Oninyechi E. Okoye, Ogochukwu Vivian Nwaubani, Ann E Okechukwu, Elizabeth E. Obiozor, & Chibuike Darl Ochiagha. (2022). Retirement Education for Sustainable Livelihood Among Staff of the University of Nigeria: Adult Education Perspective. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 65(1), 310–323. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/14890

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