ICI NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION WOMEN A CASE STUDY OF LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY (LASU) WOMEN ACADEMICS, OJO CAMPUS, NIGERIA
BY

MRS BOSEDE OYETEJU AMOO
REVIEW
BY
MOHAMMED, BILKISU
REG.NO:MLS/EDU/58967/05/06
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

INTRODUCTION
Bosede oyeteju Amoo (Mrs) Ag. Director, Educational Technology centre, Lagos state University, Ojo Nigeria. This article was presented at first conference on women and ICT Challenges and opportunities Road to Tunis 2005.
This paper intends to report a survey study on the women academics of Lagos state university (LASU) Nigeria, in terms of their Basic Knowledge and Application of ICT to enhance their professional Skills of teaching and research. It also submitted a report on the specific ICT training need of the population under study, based on the data collected.
The sample population is LASU women in the academics across the faculties in Ojo campus. The instrument for survey research is a questionnaire generated from a pool of computers skills checklist on the web, the questionnaire was designed to inquire about:
1. Basic Essential computer skills which include basic operations, the use of general commands on the computer application of disks, folders, documents and house keeping.
2. Specific computer skills a break down of the basic skills, above to ensure that they give accurate information about the skills they are experienced with.
These include:
A. keyboard mouse and related skills
b. Desktop competencies i.e. windows competencies writing and word processing competencies as well as presentation competencies
c. Internet competencies i.e. communications competencies, Data retrieval and manipulation competencies.
In addition, the general information gave an over view of the type of computers they have acquired, their e-mail addresses and the frequency of checking their mails on the website.
The questionnaire was personally distributed to the female academics on campus and was collected on the spot.
Findings
The data was analysed using the mean percentage of the frequency counts for each option. The following are the result.
General Information
From the analysis 90% of the women have personal computers, about 5% have laptops, while 5% have none and about 17% have both PC and laptops. 90% of them have e-mail addresses while the rest have none. Also, it is interesting to find out that 10% of the women check their mails everyday, 38% twice a week, 33% check their mails occasionally while 19% cannot check their mail on their own. This shows that even though most of the women have purchased computers, some are yet to even learn how to use it to perform simple operations. In discussing with the women while they were filling the questionnaire, some of them mentioned that they were either assisted by their children or their husbands to operate them computer and to check their mails.
The results show that the women academics in LASU have not been using some of the new technology to update their skills and knowledge and to enhance teaching and learning of higher education students. The Nigeria policy on education expects teachers at various levels of the educational system to be versatile in the teaching learning activities. The policy expected teachers to apply new technologies during class room interactions.
To enhance this policy the National University Commission of Nigeria Organised an on- line in -service training programme of 9 modules in 2003/2004 to enhance higher education teaching competencies of the university teachers. Only of the modulus trained on the application of old and new technologies for teaching. Only two of the women academics in LASU participated fully in the programme. Apart from the busy schedule of some of the academics especially those who are saddled with administrative responsibilities, the power supply is not regular to motivate the application of these new technologies
In LASU, the internet facilities available are owned by the university. It is private and is being managed by the company. At times the facilities are not available for month even when the women are not on the campus, they do not have regular access to internet facility, the policy can not be effective because policy are being made without adequate provision.

Recommendation and Conclusion
The University should make adequate facilities to enhance teaching and learning in higher education and provision should be made adequate along with the any policy for proper administration, The women of LASU should be sent for training on how to search for academic information on the internet and effective ways of using new technology to be able to impact new knowledge on their students.
The international organisation like African information technology education trust can also assist in the donation of computers to educational technology center to enhance the training of women on ICT skills with LASU and internet facilities so that ICT and women can be discussed globally, but will also need global support and appropriate networking to implement locally.