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Education creates a platform upon which economic, social and political prosperity of any nation is founded. Investment in education can help bring about economic growth, improve productivity, contribute to social and national development and lead to reduction in social inequality. This study was therefore to affirm the above sentiments by confirming whether physical resources in any way relate to internal efficiency in secondary schools of Tana River County. The study specifically sought to establish the relationship between physical resources and internal efficiency of public secondary schools in Tana River County in terms of number of classrooms, laboratories, textbooks, furniture, toilets/latrines, and electricity among others. The research particularly sought to determine the magnitude of inefficiency in form of dropout, repetition, and completion and aimed at providing possible solutions in relation to physical resources to minimize wastage in secondary schools and establish corrective measures that can minimize dropouts and repetition. The study was guided by the cost benefit analysis theory which aims at achieving optimal output. This theory stresses that the out-put of any investment should be correlated with the in-put in order to assess profitability. The objectives of the study were to assess the adequacy of physical resources in development and enhancing internal efficiency in public secondary schools, to find out the relationship between physical resources and dropout rate, to examine the relationship between physical resources and repetition rate of public secondary schools in Tana river County, to find the relationship between physical resources and completion rate and finally to develop complimentary policies and interventions related to physical resources that can reduce wastage in public secondary schools of Tana river County. The study was conducted using a descriptive survey and correlation research designs and the data was collected using questionnaires, interview guide and documentary analysis from 15 secondary schools which were visited by the researcher; 1 County Director of Education, 3 District Education officers, 15 Principals and 30 teachers were contacted with the Principals being purposively selected and teachers selected randomly from the accessible population. Data generated was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitative data from interview schedule and questionnaires was analyzed thematically based on research objectives. Data from documents analysis and numerical data generated from interview schedules with key informants was analyzed using mean, frequency counts and percentages. Chi-square test was used to establish relationships between physical resources, dropout, repetition, and completion rates. On the first objective, the study found out that school in Tana River County had inadequate physical resources and that those available were in poor condition. On objective two, the study found out that there was no relationship between dropout rates and condition of physical resources. On objective three and four the study found out that there was positive significant relationship between repetition, completion rates and condition of physical resources. The research also revealed that the secondary education system in Tana River County as at the period of study was inefficient with a mean dropout rate of 16.0.On the basis of findings, the study concluded that physical resources are positively correlated with internal efficiency of public secondary schools in Tana river County. It was therefore recommended that for realization of internal efficiency, there was need to equip schools in Tana River County with the necessary physical resources, adequate mechanisms and procedures for ensuring retention and high completion rates in schools. Finally, the researcher suggested that schools should be given funds directly for them to have a chance of prioritizing and acquiring essential physical resources based on their specific needs.
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Resource utilization is an integral part of the overall management of the school. Education in a school is explored by provision of resources, their maximum utilization and management. Proper management of resources enhances students’ performance and achieves the educational objectives. The success or failure of any organization, business or enterprise depends highly on proper management of human and material resources. The purpose of this study was to establish the physical determinants of management of educational resources for enhancing students’ performance in secondary schools in Vihiga County. The specific objective was to establish the physical determinants of educational resources management and their influence on students’ performance in secondary schools in Vihiga County. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The sample size composed of principles, teachers, students and County Quality Assurance and Standards Officers. Simple random sampling method, saturated samp...
The Conference of African states on the Development of Education in Africa held in Addis Ababa in 1961 noted that over 80% per cent of the children of primary and secondary school age were not enrolled despite increased demand for quality education. Member states were urged to progressively raise the percentage of their national income for financing education from 4% to 6% between 1970 and 1980. Despite the apparent commitment by member states and the subsequent declarations including EFA, MDGs and the current post 2015 SDGs, there seems to be little progress by African countries towards the realization of this target. Accordingly, this paper explores the challenges associated with the funding of physical facilities and teaching/learning materials in public day secondary schools within Kakamega East Sub-County. The paper is based on the findings of a study entitled: Analysis of Educational Funding on Academic Achievement in Public Day Secondary Schools in Kakamega East Sub-County, Kenya. In this study, a descriptive cross-sectional survey research design was used. The target population consisted of 24 principals and 1Sub-County Quality Assurance and Standards Officer. Data was collected from a purposive sample of 17 principals (70%) of the target population, using a self-administered questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and an observation schedule and complemented by document analysis. Qualitative data was analyzed thematically and presented in form quotations and narrations while quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics in terms of frequencies and percentages and presented using figures and tables. The findings of the study indicate that funds from the government, Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and parents were associated with challenges of inadequacy and delays. Consequently, schools sought supplementary funds from non-governmental organizations and conditional government grants all which were insufficient too. Based on these findings the paper recommends an exploration into additional funding alternatives including forging linkages with both public and private entities, to supplement existing sources.
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Implications of Funding Practices on Adequacy of Physical Facilities and Learners' Academic Achievement in Public Secondary SchoolsEducation is a human activity that fashions and models man for the society. This is only possible with quality education. Funding has implications on the quality of education of which schools physical facilities are an integral part. The study employed survey design on a target population of 252 public secondary schools from which 36 made up the study population. The principals, heads of academic departments and school bursars from the 36 schools in addition to the County Director of Education were respondents. The study found out that funding practices had an association with the provision of adequate physical facilities. It also established that utilization of the physical facilities had an association with learners' academic achievement. However allocation of funds had no direct association with learners' academic achievement. The study concluded that funding practices have an indirect association with learners' academic achievement. The implication of this being that funding practices have to ensure provision of adequate physical facilities which have to be utilised in the teaching learning process in order to realise positive learners' academic achievement.
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The paper examines physical facilities and its influence in promoting academic performance in upgraded national schools in Nyanza region, Kenya. The study adopted mixed method approach of convergent parallel research design. The study adopted mixed method approach. Participants included 11 Upgraded National Schools in the Nyanza region's principals, teachers, support staff, and students. Purposive sampling was used to pick 11 principals, while stratified and simple random selection was used to select 2099 pupils, 43 instructors, and 44 members of the support staff. Questionnaires and an interview guide were used to acquire the data. While the quantitative information was analyzed using the Statistics Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.0 to provide frequencies and percentages, the qualitative data was organized into themes and communicated through narratives and direct quotes. The results showed that there was poor academic performance de to as inadequate physical facilities. The findings show that the Upgraded National Schools' physical facilities are insufficient to support and stimulate teaching and learning at the Improved National School level. The Ministry of Education (MoE) should upgrade the upgraded national schools to include extra classrooms, labs, libraries, dormitories, staffrooms, music and home science rooms, and computer rooms. To raise money for building physical facilities and buying instructional materials, stakeholders must organize fundraising events and write bids.
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his study examines the influence of Resources maintenance on the provision of educational services in public and private secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study utilized a descriptive survey research design and stratified random sampling technique was used to sample seven hundred and thirty eight (738) principals and vice principals from the population of one thousand five hundred and fifteen (1,515) principals and vice principals of public and private secondary schools in Rivers States. Data were collected using researchers' constructed questionnaire titled " Resource Maintenance for the Provision of Educational Services Questionnaire (RMPESQ) ". The major limitation is that, is the terrain did not give us easy access to some areas for data collection. The mean, mean set and rank order as well as standard deviation and t‐test were used in analyzing the null hypotheses. Result obtained shows that maintenance culture in both public and private secondary school is poor; the school physical resources are regularly maintained. Physical resources in schools if properly maintained influence the provision of educational service and students academic performance in Rivers State; that funds is the major problem militating against the maintenance of school resources.
In Kakamega East Sub-County, a majority (76%), of candidates from public day secondary schools scored below average of C in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) examination in the period 2010-2014. The purpose of the study was to find out if the low academic achievement was related to physical facilities. Descriptive cross-sectional survey research design was used with a target population of 24 school principals. Stratified random sampling was used to select a sample size of 70% from the two educational zones while purposive sampling was used to select school principals and one Sub-County Quality Assurance and Standards Officer. Data was collected through document analysis, self-administered questionnaire, semi-structured interview and observation schedule. Qualitative data was reported in form of quotations and narrations followed by thematic analysis. Quantitative data was analyzed by use of percentages, cross tabulation and correlation. The study findings indicated that public day schools had inadequate classrooms, Science laboratory and library facilities due to shortage of funds. Consequently, insufficient physical facilities had a high positive correlation with low academic achievement in the KCSE examination. The study recommended that more effort be expended on provision of classrooms and Science laboratories in order to enhance academic achievement.
The study appraised the maintenance and management of available secondary school facilities in Cross River State. The Government of Cross River State has increased the funding of affordable and qualitative education by about 12.96% in 2012 to 16.83% in its annual budget for 2013 in order to guarantee adequate provision, and management of school facilities in her secondary schools, and other institutions of learning so as to foster quality learning, and enhanced student’s academic performance. This study sampled 235 stakeholders in Calabar South and North in the state secondary school education, and found that 87.10% of the respondent agreed that there exist a correlation between provision, maintenance and management of school facilities, and students’ academic performance. Thus, the study recommended among other things; a sustained increase in annual budgets to ensure adequate and continuous maintenance as well as management of school facilities.
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