AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY USAGE OF ICT FACILITIES AMONG STUDENTS OF SA'ADU ZUNGUR UNIVERSITY BAUCHI STATE (MAIN CAMPUS)

This research investigates the availability, accessibility and usage of information and communication technology (ICT) among students of Sa'adu Zungur University Bauchi (Main Campus). The study adopted survey research design with a structured questionnaire consisting of 40 items developed by the researcher for data collection. The population of the study comprised of all the 13000 students of Sa'adu Zungur University Bauchi (Main Campus). Four research questions were formulated to guide the study. The findings of the study revealed among others that ICT facilities are available for students use at the school and as such they have access to it. In terms of usage, the students mostly use the school ICT Facilities for the purpose of schools registration and thus there is good usage of ICT for academic learning. Some recommendations were made in line with the findings which among others include the urgent need for the department to make ICT available and easily assessable for the students and also the need to mandate students to create email address and also present assignments/ course projects through power point projector.