Comparative Analysis of Management of Public and Private Secondary Schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT
The study was a comparative analysis of the management of public and private secondary schools in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study had five specific objectives, five research questions and five null hypotheses.
Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study is one thousand five hundred and twenty-eight (1528) which consists of principals from all public and private secondary schools in Kaduna State.
Out of this number, three hundred and seven (307) were purposively sampled in the State from each of the two Local Government Areas.
The researcher developed a checklist for data collection. The researcher collected a letter of introduction from the department of vocational and technical education, that enabled the researcher to collect official data needed for the study from Ministry of Education Kaduna State and other schools in the state.
The data collected were analyzed using frequencies and percentages, while, the hypotheses were tested using t-test at 0.05 level of significance.
The study results among others revealed that, public secondary schools were provided with more instructional materials than private secondary schools in Kaduna State. The study concluded that, Public secondary schools are better than private schools in terms of provision of instructional materials.
INTRODUCTION
Kaduna State was part of the former North Central State, which was created in 1967 when Nigeria changed from four (4) regional system to 19 state structure.
In 1987, it was divided into two along the line of the old provincial boundary, thus Katsina province became Katsina State, while Zaria province formed the present Kaduna State.
The state capital is Kaduna, a status it has enjoyed since the old Northern region days. There are twenty-three (23) Local Government Areas (LGAS) in the state, and Kaduna State covers an area of 44,408.3 square kilometers.
The population according to 2006 census is 6,066,562, which then put the density at about 137 persons per square kilometer.
Kaduna State is a major industrial axis in the North, while Kaduna town has a lot of commercial activities and industries like the Peugeot car assembly and the petroleum refinery and textile industries.
The state has an airport, which is accessible all year round because of fair weather. The State also has a major railway junction for the entire railway system between the North and the South.
Kaduna State Government (KSG) attaches high priority to the education of its citizens and had made concerted efforts to address the long-standing problems of low enrolment and poor educational quality, particularly at the primary and secondary education levels.
The main interventions have been the restructuring of the school system, large-scale recruitment of teaching staff, the construction of many new classrooms and facilities and rehabilitation of existing ones, with the procurement of equipment and related teaching aids. (Kaduna 2015).
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