Osam, O; Ekpo, K (2009)

As the demand for admission in tertiary instructions rapidly outstrippedavailable institutional space, it increasingly became doubtful whether thetraditional institutions in their structure and resources capacity would copewith the aspiring thousands of Nigerians who sought tertiary education.Hence the need for distance education (National Open University of Nigeria)where those who are workers can snugly fit in also. The paper examines thestudents’ perception of National Open University of Nigeria scheme usingCalabar study centre as a case study. A sample of two hundred and fiftystudents was used and with a single hypothesis formulated, a t-test analysisof the scores derived from the respondents was done. The result shows thatthe calculated t was lesser than the critical t at 0.05 level of significance.Hence the conclusion that male and female students in National OpenUniversity of Nigeria, Calabar study centre do not differ in their perceptionof the scheme.