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Assessment of Farm Year Programme of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike
Abstract
the students of both universities were satisfied in major areas of their involvement. The major constraints to FYP as indicated by the students were lack of proper orientation of students before the commencement of the FYP, lack of proper monitoring and evaluation by the field staff and lecturers, poor programme planning that resulted in programme clashes and inadequate funding of FYP. The students of both universities were of the view that there should be a monitoring and evaluation unit in their faculties to assess the progress of the programme. The findings further revealed that there were significant differences between the perception of UNN and MOUAU students on
constraints to FYP (t=10.370) and ways of improving the FYP (t=7.62). It is recommended that there is the need to put in place adequate resources for field-based practical in order to achieve the desire objective of FYP.