EDUCATION LAW AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN RIVERS STATE
Journal Title: Educational Research International - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
The study examined Education law and community participation in financial management of secondary schools in Rivers State. The descriptive research design was adopted for the study. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The population of study comprised 50 senior officers of Rivers State Ministry of Education and 247 secondary schools principals in the State. A sample of 120 respondents were used for the study; comprising 30 Ministry of Education officials and 90 secondary schools principals. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled ‘Education Law and Community Participation in Financial Management of Secondary Schools in Rivers State Questionnaire’ (ELCPFMSSRSQ).The validated instrument has a reliability co-efficient of 0.80. The Findings of the study revealed the challenges in the way of full implementation of School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) system. The challenges included lack of government support for SBMC system, poor finance management skills among the members and weak operational framework in membership selection. Recommendations made among others included that, Rivers State government should modify and streamline operational framework of SBMCs with a view to making it to be more functional and responsive to individual secondary school needs.
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P. C. Ukaigwe, Innocent U. Igbozuruike
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