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Item FUNDING AND SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES AS CORRELATES OF SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA(UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, 2018) SAGAYA, Abiodun AmudalatuEducation is a yardstick to measure socio-economic, cultural, skill acquisition and technological development. Secondary school education is important because it is a bridge between basic and tertiary education. Inadequate funds and poor implementation of school development programmes were factors affecting students’ academic performance in North-central Nigeria. Thus, this study therefore investigated the relationships among funding, school development programmes and secondary school students’ academic performance. The objectives were to: (i) determine the sources of funding secondary school education; (ii) investigate how the funds allocated are utilised; (iii) identify various development programmes in secondary schools; (iv) examine the level of the implementation of the school development programmes (v) examine the level of students’ academic performance; and (vi) determine the relationships that existed between funding, school development programmes and students’ academic performance in North-central Nigeria. The research was a correlational descriptive survey. The population comprised all the 1,582 secondary school principals in North-central Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used to select three (50%) out of the six states. The target population was 844 secondary school principals, while stratified sampling technique was used to select 196, 169 and 152 principals, respectively from the three states, making a total sample of 517 principals. Purposive sampling technique was used to select six project officers from the three states Ministry of Education. A total number of 341,425 students’ results from 2011 to 2015 were used to determine students’ academic performance. A researcher-designed questionnaire, checklist and result proforma were employed to collect relevant data. The questionnaire was validated by four experts and reliability coefficient of 0.89 was obtained. The data collected was analysed using percentage, graph, mean ranking, multiple regression and Pearson Product-Moment correlation statistic at 0.05 level of significance. The findings were that: i. main source of funding secondary education came from the budgetary allocation of the state (98.53%); ii. fund utilised on secondary school education was 98.04% recurrent and 32.24% capital expenditure, respectively; iii. school development programmes available were Teacher Development Programme (45.3%), Student Exchange Development Programme (0.8%), Student Welfare Services Development Programme (26.8%), Infrastructural Development Programme (12.7%) and School Renovation Programme (14.4%); iv. implementation of school development programmes was moderate with the mean score of 2.67; v. students’ academic performance was average with 65.5% of the students having 5 credit passes including English Language and Mathematics; and vi. there was a positive but low significant relationship among funding, school development programmes and students’ academic performance in North-central Nigeria ( F (2,461) = 53.532, p ˂ 0.05) The study concluded among others that state budgetary allocation was the main source of funding secondary education; that fund utilized on school development programmes was below average; and that students’ academic performance was average. The implication is that, to enhance student’s academic performance, there is the need for full release of approved funds and adequate implementation of school development programmes. The study therefore recommended a full release of funds allocated to secondary school education and an effective implementation of school development programmes to enhance students’ academic performance.Item FUNDING, INTERNAL EFFICIENCY AND GOAL ACHIEVEMENT OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NORTH CENTRAL, NIGERIA(UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, 2018-07) OTTAN, Jamiu OlatunjiFunding inadequacy of university education in Nigeria has contributed to the production of graduates who could not impact positively the economic and social development of the nation. Thus, this study set out to investigate funding, internal efficiency and goal achievement of university education in North-central Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to: (i) identify sources of university education funding; (ii) investigate adequacy of funds released to universities; (iii) examine provision of physical facilities, capacity building programmes for lecturers, ICT tools, mentorship and lecturers’ welfare services; (iv) determine wastage and graduation rates; (v) determine the relationship between university funding and goal achievement; (vi) determine the relationship between internal efficiency and goal achievement; and (vii) determine the relationship among funding, internal efficiency and goal achievement of university education in North-central Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design of correlation type. The population comprised all seven federal universities in North-central Nigeria. This is because they had the same funding policy. Five of these institutions that had the required data to measure internal efficiency were purposively chosen. Four faculties were randomly selected in each of the institutions. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 1076 lecturers out of the 2404 lecturers in the institutions. Funding and Internal Efficiency Questionnaire (FIEQ); Goal Achievement Questionnaire (GAQ); Resource Availability Check-lists (RAC) and Student’s Academic Performance Proforma (SAPP) were the instruments used for data collection. The questionnaires were content-validated and reliability coefficients of 0.87 and 0.72 for FIEQ and GAQ, respectively were obtained. Descriptive statistics of percentage and mean score were used to answer the research questions, while multiple regression analysis and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation statistics were used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 significance level. The findings of the study were that: i. Federal universities relied heavily on monthly subvention and administrative charges as sources of funding; ii. funds released for university education in Nigeria were not adequate as the gap between proposed budget and funds released from year 2011 and 2015 ranged between 26% and 39%; iii. provision of funds for physical facilities, capacity building programmes, ICT tools, mentorship, and lecturers’ welfare services were fair in the institutions (mean scores of 3.03, 3.24, 3.32, 3.16 and 3.29 respectively); iv. in the institutions, student academic wastages were very low (5%) while graduation rates were very high (95%); v. significant relationship existed between university funding and goal achievement (r = 0.34, p ˂ 0.05); vi. significant relationship existed between internal efficiency and university goal achievement (r = 0.47, p ˂ 0.05); and vii. significant relationship existed among funding, internal efficiency and university goal achievement (R2 = 0.032, p ˂ 0.05). The study concluded that funding of university was inadequate. This had led to low level of internal efficiency in achieving university goals in the study area. It was recommended, that there should be improved funding from all stakeholders for adequate provision of resources while the universities should improve on their internal revenue generation drive.