Abstract
The paper has made a critical examination of the private sector participation in the funding of educational institutions in Delta state. Three research questions were raised and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. An instrument was constructed and designated as “Private Sector Participation in Funding Secondary Schools” (PSPFSS). The instrument was validated in its face and content values and found reliable at 0.75 reliability coefficient. T-test method of statistical analysis was employed to analyze the data collected. The results of findings revealed that private sector recognized the country’s educational enterprise as a costly social service which should include both government and the private sector. From the findings, it was recommended that policies being initiated by the state government to engender participation of private sector in funding public educational institutions and that Delta state education commission should relax some of their policies to enable private sector participate effectively in funding schools. Key words: Methods, improving, private sector, funding, Nigeria Educational Institutions.
Highlights
Education has become a very big enterprise all over the world and it has been recognized as the greatest investment that any economy can make for the quick development of its economic, political, sociological and human resources
H2: There is no significant difference between the management of staff and subordinates as regards the policies initiated by government to increase private sector participation in funding educational institutions in Delta state
What are the constraints to private sector participation in funding secondary education? From Table 2, it can be seen that both category of respondents responded positively to all the items, except 9 which was rated high by management staff and moderate by the subordinates
Summary
Education has become a very big enterprise all over the world and it has been recognized as the greatest investment that any economy can make for the quick development of its economic, political, sociological and human resources. It is a social service whose financial burden has for a long time rested on the shoulder of the government. The emerging reality have no doubt reviewed that government alone cannot single handedly bear the cost of education This is because public school education is the largest public undertaken in the country. Private sectors are organizations owned by individual or group of individual
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