10th U6+ Consortium of African Universities International Conference

This study looked at the Impact of Security Management Practices on Human Capital Development and Students Safety in Tertiary Institutions in Kogi State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprise of all the 114,000 academic and administrative staff across all the eleven (11) tertiary institutions in Kogi State. The sample is three hundred and eighty five, (385), to arrive at this, purposive sampling technique was used to select (30) academic staff each from the public tertiary institutions bringing the number to 330 and five administrative staff each bringing the number of administrative to 55. Data were collected using a 16-item structured questionnaire titled Impact of Security Management Practices on Human Capital Development and Students Safety Questionnaire (ISMPHCDSSQ). The three research questions were answered using mean scores while the two hypotheses were tested using t-test analysis at .05 Alpha levels. The result showed that both respondents agreed that security management practices has impact on human capital development, security management practices adopted by schools has impact on students safety; finally, it revealed how effective the security management practices adopted enhance security in schools. The result of the two hypotheses were accepted, showing that, there is a significant difference in the opinion of the respondents. The recommendations are; efforts should be made through the adoption of security management practices to reduce insecurity and administrators should adopt more security management practices identified.