Abstract

This study focused on the assessment of funding and management in public secondary schools in Ikom Educational Zone Cross River State, Nigeria. The study was set up to achieve two objectives among which are; assess the funding of public secondary schools through government grants and how the funds provided are managed in Ikom educational zones, and determine the funding of public secondary schools through school fees and how the funds generated are managed in Ikom educational zones; two research questions and two hypotheses were also formulated to guide the study. Relevant literatures to this study were reviewed and all authors cited in the works were duly acknowledged in the reference. The research design adopted for this study was descriptive survey research type. The target population of this study was 1,262. A sample of 213 subjects was used, using stratified random sampling technique. The instrument used by the researcher was questionnaires for data collection; its content, clarity and appropriateness were also validated. 30 teachers, PTA/SBMC were used for pilot testing and the reliability was obtained at 0.98. the two hypotheses was tested by using ANOVA at alpha P < 0.05 level of significance; research questions were answered using mean responses, standard deviation and standard errors. The findings revealed that the two hypotheses show that there is significant difference. Based on these findings it was concluded that the funds generated from government and school fees are not enough in providing school facilities in secondary schools. It was therefore, recommended that government should disburse sufficient funds in order to provide teaching and learning facilities in time to the school to enable the implementation process be successful.