ABSTRACT
The role of the university in national development is the subject of much discussion in Africa today. Attentive interest in the role of the university in national development has increased because of continuing concern that universities address problems caused by the technological changes that have affected the political and social-economic order in African society. Failure to cope effectively with such changes has led to a general disenchantment among students, parents, legislators, the client system and the general populace about the quality and relevance of university education today (Group for Human Development in Higher Education, 1984; Gaff et al., 1978; Stordahl, 1981). Hence all these groups have demanded greater accountability: efficiency in the economic sense, in the way universities deliver their programmes, and effectiveness in the educational sense (Miller, 1974).
