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Abstract Environmental and social problems are already a global issue. The issue has raised the concept of sustainability and has received great attention from governments, companies, environmentalists and educational institutions. Many educational institutions have incorporated sustainability education into the curriculum. However, few scientists criticized that the institutions have proven failed in educating students making the right decision. Islamic sustainability education should be an important part of creating a good relationship between people and the environment. All accounting students studying in a higher institution should be equipped with sufficient knowledge to deal with sustainability. Education in higher institutions should not only emphasize the needed skills and knowledge, but it must also instill the religious standards and the commitment of students toward sustainability. The objective of Islamic sustainability education basically to encourage students to reflect on the kind of sustainability issues that they might encounter, so that they will be sensitive to situations that include a sustainability component. If Muslim accounting students are sensitive to sustainability issues, then they are likely to use Islamic moral dimensions in resolving the sustainability problems. Keywords: Islamic sustainability, accounting, education, higher institutions

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This research provides a reconceptualization of service consumption in higher institution. It made use of a multi-stage development scale process, where survey questionnaires were issued out to 50 respondents which include students of Covenant University (B.Sc., M.Sc./MBA). The result of the exploratory and factor analysis shows the multi-stage process. The study showed an evidence of validity and reliability of the scales used. Findings showed that the institution had a positive response to the pre-purchase and service encounter stages while most respondents frowned at the post encounter stage, the institution should put more effort in post encounter stage so as to get a positive response in the nearest future.

Comparative education programme is one of the compulsory courses that must be offered and passed in the faculty of education before graduation. The Comparative education programme is also offered as a Masters' programme and PhD programme in many Universities across the World. The teaching and learning of Comparative education programme is facing many problems in the Nigerian higher institutions. This paper identified: inadequate funding, inadequate instructional materials, shortage of lecturers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, poor research, strike actions, brain-drain, corruption, over-population and poor curriculum development. To address this problems, the following were recommended: the government should increase the funding of Comparative education programmes, employ more qualified lecturers in Comparative education, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, adequate instructional materials, ensure periodic and effective curriculum development for Comparative education programme and Comparative education research and effective staff development for Comparative education lecturers in all higher institutions in Nigeria.

Brain-drain is one of the major problems facing Nigerian higher institutions. Many higher institutions in Nigeria are losing their professors daily due to poor working conditions. This paper intends to discuss the effects of brain-drain on the administration of higher institutions in Nigeria. The paper looked at the concept of brain-drain. The paper identified the causes of brain-drain in the Nigerian higher institutions to include but not limited to; poor salary, unconducive working environment, poor staff development, inadequate infrastructural facilities, strike actions, insecurity and inadequate funding while the identified effects of brain-drain on the higher institutions administration to includes; poor quality education, high student-teacher ratio, shortages of academic staff, poor research development and poor programme development. The paper in order to ensure higher institutions sustainability in Nigeria hereby recommended among others the following: government should increase the motivation of academic staff, implement all reached agreement with trade union groups or civil society organizations in the country, ensure adequate life and job security in all higher institutions and provide more infrastructural facilities.

The quality of higher education in Nigeria is falling and this is affecting the social, economic and technological development of the country because the higher institutions are saddled with the responsibilities of manpower development of the country. In order to address this problem, there are various agencies designed to ensure quality assurance in the various higher institutions. These agencies are been confronted with many challenges. This paper is aimed to examine the problems preventing quality assurance programme in Nigerian public higher institutions from achieving their goals. To achieve this, the researchers employed secondary data to justify the various points raised in the paper. Print materials and online publication were sorted and used in the paper. This paper identified; inadequate funding, shortage of academic staff, poor implementation of quality assurance policies, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, strike Actions ,corruption, weak supervision, poor staff development as problems preventing quality assurance in the Nigerian higher institutions. To ensure quality in the Nigerian higher institutions, the following have been suggested: adequate funding, employment of adequate academic staff, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, fight all forms of corruption practices, implement all agreement reached with the different union groups, motivate academic staff, effective supervision, effective staff development.