Benue State University, Makurdi

ECONOMIC RECESSION AND THE MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA

William Otene Ejeh, Dr. Philomena Ibuh Adzongo and Dr. Joan Nike Ada

Abstract

The study investigated “Economic Recession and the Management of Secondary Schools in North Central Nigeria”. The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of economic recession on students’ enrolment and revenue generation in secondary schools. Two research questions guided the study, two hypotheses were formulated and tested for the study. The research design was ex-post-facto and the population comprised 34,412 teaching staff of 1,703 secondary schools in North Central Nigeria. A sample of 688 teaching staff was used for the study while 100 management staff was used for interview schedule. A Multi-stage sampling technique was adopted. Impact of Economic Recession Questionnaire (IERQ) with an overall reliability coefficient of 0.98 and an interview schedule were the instruments used for data collection, the instruments were validated by 5 expects in Benue State University and University of Agriculture both in Makurdi. Mean and standard deviation were also used to answer the two research questions while chi-square goodness of fit was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Percentages and pie charts were also use to analyze the interview responses. The result showed that, there was significant difference in the impact of economic recession on students’ enrolment and revenue generation in secondary schools in North Central Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended that government should increase allocation of funds to secondary schools in order to improve school revenue while ministries of Education and school management should reduce spending on other items and make the funding of secondary schools a priority for infrastructural development and increase enrolment while government, ministries of Education and principals should make the welfare of teachers a priority by paying their salaries and allowances promptly even in times of economic recession because a motivated teacher is a builder of future generations.

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