FUND UTILISATION ON DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN AFIJIOLOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of fund utilization on development of secondary schools in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised 17 principals and 632
teachers in the 17 public secondary schools in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State. All the 17 principals involved the study. Also, simple random sampling technique was used to select 15 teachers each from the entire 17 public secondary schools in Afijio Local Government Area, Oyo State making 255 sampled teachers. Two set of self-designed questionnaires titled Funding Questionnaire (FQ) and Students’ Development Questionnaire (SDQ) were used to collect data from the respondents. Frequency counts, simple percentages and mean were used to analyse data collected based on research questions raised while Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to analyse data collected based on the formulated hypothesis at p<0.05. The results
showed that the sources of funding of secondary schools included fund generated from PTA, education tax fund and donation, Old Students Association and government grants. The cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains had high, moderate and steady development rate respectively. Also, the result indicated a high positive relationship between fund utilisation and development secondary schools (r = 0.595, p<0.05). The study concluded that fund utilisation had significant influence on the development of secondary schools in Afijio Local Government Area of Oyo State. It was therefore recommended that all stakeholders in education should assist in funding secondary education in order to improve the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of the students.