Deregulation of Funding and Quality Assurance in Public Secondary Schools in Rivers State
- Author MOSES, Zechariah Olilanya Promise
- Co-Author NWOGU, U.J, MOSES-PROMISE, Omonefe Jemilatu
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- Country : Nigeria
- Subject : Educational Management
Keywords : Deregulation, Funding, Quality assurance, Public secondary schools
Abstract
The study examined deregulation of funding and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Rivers State. One research question and one hypothesis guided the study. The study adopted the correlational design as the working design. The population comprised 247 principals from the 247 public secondary schools in Rivers State and a sample size of 185 principals drawn with multistage sampling approach representing 75% of principals. The principals responded to two structured validated instruments titled Deregulation of Funding Questionnaire (DFQ) and Quality Assurance Questionnaire (QAQ) designed by the researcher. The reliability coefficient of the instrument using cronbach alpha method was 0.73. Simple regression was used to answer the research question while t-test associated with simple regression was used to test the null hypotheses. Findings of the study showed that deregulation of funding predicted 3.50% of quality assurance in public secondary schools and there was a significant contribution between deregulation of funding and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Rivers State. It was concluded that deregulation of funding predicts 3.50% of teachers’ performance in secondary schools in Rivers State. The remaining 96.50% cannot be accounted by deregulation of funding. There was also a significant contribution between deregulation of funding and quality assurance in public secondary schools in Rivers State. It was therefore recommended that private sectors and individuals should be willing to participate in funding and provision of facilities in secondary schools for quality assurance to be achieved.
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