University Teachers’ Demographic Characteristics as Determinants of Transformed Human Capital Development in Universities in Rivers State of Nigeria.

Quality of teachers is promoted by the policy formulated for quality assurance and productivity in a school system. Demographic characteristics of teachers seem to bring forth investment in production for economic value. Hence this study explored university teachers’ demographic characteristics as determinants of transformed human capital development in universities in Rivers State of Nigeria. It was designed to provide a baseline information for policy-management on education in orders to enhance quality and productivity in the university system. An ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study with two research hypotheses to guide the investigation. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 600 university teachers from the three universities studied. Data was collected using researcher’s questionnaire titled “Transformed Human Capital Development Scale (THCDS)”. Data was statistically analyzed using independent t-test and Multiple Regression Analysis statistics. Results obtained revealed that university teachers’ demographic characteristics (work experience, educational level and computer literacy) could determine transformed human capital development in universities in Rivers State of Nigeria. It was concluded that the development of the nation was guaranteed by knowledgeable, skillful and competent university teachers through teaching experience, computer literacy and educational level status. It was recommended among others that, the right quality of university teachers should be employed to ensure requisite productive capacity for economic growth in the nation.