Job advancement in the university system has recently been issue of discuss. This study investigates the personal training and in-service training of employees in the system. The study adopted multi-stage sampling procedure. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the federal and state universities; stratified sampling technique was used to select five faculties and five departments in each faculty in the selected universities and random sampling technique was used to select the respondents in the selected departments and faculties.
A questionnaire “Pre-Job Qualification, Training and Job Advancement Questionnaire” was raised to gather information for the study. The questionnaire was divided into five sections. Each questionnaire measures demographic characteristics, the availability of in-service training, the opportunity for personal training and job advancement aspiration of the respondents. The method of reliability used was Cronbach Alpha, which is internal consistency analysis. The instrument used in the collection of data for the study was analysed using the Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis to test the three hypotheses formulated at 0.05 (5%) level of significance. It was observed that the in-service training, personal training and the aspiration of the respondents all have significant relationship with job advancement in the university. It is therefore recommended that employees should be given the opportunity to develop themselves.
personal training, in-sevice training, job advancement
