University of Ilorin

Senate-approved guidelines for writing PhD theses and dissertations, applied across faculties including Education.

Source: the Unilorin document itself. If your department circulates its own variant, follow that.

What Chapter One must contain

Consistent across every Nigerian handbook we have read. Leaving any of these out is a common reason for departmental corrections.

• Background to the Study — Situates the problem in its Nigerian or sector context.
• Statement of the Problem — The gap or issue, usually closing on one crisp problem sentence.
• Purpose / Aim and Specific Objectives — An overall aim, then numbered objectives.
• Research Questions and / or Hypotheses — Hypotheses only if your design is inferential — NOUN writes "and/or".
• Significance of the Study — Who benefits, and how.
• Scope / Delimitation of the Study — Geographic, population and conceptual bounds.
• Operational Definition of Terms — Your major constructs, defined as you use them.

Check yours against it

Select University of Ilorin in the free check and it applies these rules to your own title, objectives and questions.