Benue State University, Makurdi

INFLUENCE OF NATIONAL HOME GROWN SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME ON THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN GWER-EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BENUE STATE

James Duenya, Jacob Akaahemba Apase PhD and Mary Nguhunden Chafa

The study investigated influence of National Home Grown School Feeding Programme on management of Public primary schools in Gwer-East Local Government Area of Benue State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. The population of study comprised 656 primary school teachers. A total of 80 primary school teachers were selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. A 4-point structured rating scale questionnaire titled Influence of School Feeding Programme on Management of Public Primary Schools (ISFPMPPSQ) was developed by the researchers and used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and inferential statistics of Chi-square (x-2) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that school feeding programme has significant influence on pupils’ academic performance and that school feeding programme has significant influence on pupils’ enrolment in public primary schools. It was recommended among others that the government should sustain school feeding programme in all public primary schools across the nation and that donor agencies should continue assisting in funding the school feeding programme in Nigeria.

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