International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue IX, September 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705

Secondary Education Funding Strategies for Educational Goals Achievement in Rivers State Nigeria

Seimogha Rita Matthew Odou¹, Richard ANIETIE²

 ¹School of Graduate Studies, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Nigeria
²College of Graduate Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

Abstract: – This study is on Secondary Education Funding Strategies for Educational Goals Achievement. The significance of this study is that the study will equip school administrators with the strategies to fund secondary education. Two research questions and hypotheses guided the study. A research questionnaire tagged “School Funding Strategies Questionnaire (SFSQ). And a Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability coefficient of 0.72 which was reliable. Among the 286 population of principals in public senior secondary schools from the 166 principals were randomly selected as sample through a stratified random sampling technique. 166 questionnaires were retrieved and analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The study identified 5 sources of funding and 5 challenges of funding secondary education. It concludes that the evaluations of funding strategies is necessary for effective and efficient school funding in order to achieve secondary educational goals achievement hence recommends that educational financiers, ranging from external to internal sources of fund particularly those fund raised in school which can be in form allied school business should be used with a view of harnessing them to curb challenges arising from school funding.

Keywords: education, funding, strategies, secondary, education, goals – achievement, aid, external, internal.

I. INTRODUCTION

Education is the bed rock of any country with the drive to pursue development tenaciously. In fact this may be because education is the only tools with high reliability of delivering any country’s development plan to the later. Based on this peculiarity, education is known to be the most acceptable means of development and transformations (Meenyinikor, Nyeche, & Julia, 2014).