Abstract:

Covenant University (CU), Nigeria, has achieved a number of feats since its inception in 2002. Currently, it occupies the first position in both Nigeria and West Africa and the fifteenth in Africa in the January 2015 edition of the Web metrics ranking of Universities. In a bid to continue to excel, the University, has set out to achieve the vision of becoming one of the best ten universities in the world by the year, 2022 (otherwise known as Vision 10:2022). The vision is considered important when viewed in the context of the current state of tertiary education across the whole of the African continent where most graduates have been observed to lack appropriate skills needed for employment. A vision of this magnitude engaged in by CU could hardly be achieved without appropriate knowledge of key factors that could drive it. Thus, the objective of this study is two-fold: (1) determine the factors that could significantly influence the realization of the vision; and (2) investigate whether Management and other employees’ perception of the factors differ significantly. The study will utilize data to be collected from a randomly selected sample of both Management and other academic and administrative employees of the university. Thereafter, regression analysis will be performed to identify the determinants of the future of the vision 10:2022.

Keywords:

Covenant university, employees, management, vision10:2022.