OKPOR, CHINEDU ONELE .ESUT/PG/Ph.D/2020100000337 Educational management Enugu State University of Science & Technology ESUTH, Enugu state, Nigeria.
Abstract:
This study investigates the alternative sources of funding adopted by principals in secondary schools in
Onueke education zone, Ebonyi State. The researcher adopted a descriptive survey research design for the study. The study was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses respectively. The hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study was conducted among public secondary schools in Onueke education zone. The population for the study consisted of 2181 principals and teachers in all 65 public secondary schools in the zone. The researcher used all 65 principals since the number is few and manageable while the sample size of teachers was 423 giving the total sample size of 488 respondents. 20% percent of the population of teachers and principals was used. The instrument for data collection was researcher’s made questionnaire entitled: “Alternative sources of funding secondary schools in Onueke
education zone questionnaire (ASFSSQ) which was face-validated by three experts from Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of science and Technology (ESUT), two from education management and one from mathematics and computer. Descriptive statistics of mean of 2.50 and above was accepted while below 2.50 was not accepted. Standard deviation was used to answer the research questions while inferential statistics of t- test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. It was found out that community involvement, PTA fund, Alumni Association fund and development of school farm are alternative sources of funding secondary schools in Onueke education zone adopted by principals, Ebonyi State. Based on the findings, recommendations were made thus: communities should intensify efforts in funding secondary schools, government through good polices should allow school heads to use funds within the school to run it freely, among other things.
Keywords: Alternative, Secondary Education, Funding, sources.
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