The work investigated private sectors participation and educational development of Secondary school in Abia State. The work investigated private sectors participation and educational development of Secondary school in Abia State. The term private connotes personal and that which belongs to an individual, group of people and not by the government - Private sectors therefore are those parts of the economy which are owned by individuals. Examples are wealthy individuals, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Alumni associations, Community Based Organizations (CBOs) etc.

1. PRIVATE SECTORS PARTICIPATION
AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA
STATE
THOMPSON OGBU
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT
UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE

2. INTRODUCTION
• The work investigated private sectors participation and
educational development of Secondary school in Abia
State.
• The work investigated private sectors participation and
educational development of Secondary school in Abia
State.
• The term private connotes personal and that which
belongs to an individual, group of people and not by the
government
• - Private sectors therefore are those parts of the
economy which are owned by individuals.
• Examples are wealthy individuals, Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs), Alumni associations, Community
Based Organizations (CBOs) etc.

3. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
• The Education sector in Nigeria has been faced with quite a number of
challenges for some years now. These challenges which bother on
gross under funding, inadequate facilities and equipment, shortage of
qualified manpower, have become a matter of serious concern to
stakeholders in the education industry. The Government has in her
policy statement expressed her inability to continue to shoulder the
burden of funding the sector all alone.
• This no doubt has left the Education sector as destitute and with the
options of looking for an alternative means of financing there
programs.
• However, following the success recorded in the communication
industry of Nigeria socio-economic as consequence of the
participation of the private sectors in communication sector, there’s a
general belief that private sectors participation in all other sectors of
Nigeria national life is bound to produce similar positive result hence
the call for Private sectors participation in the development of
education in Nigeria. This work, therefore, investigated the extent to
which private sectors have heeded to this call for the development of
Secondary schools in Abia State.

4. PURPOSE
• The purpose of the study was to:
• investigate the ways in which private sector
participated in the administration of secondary
schools in Abia State and
• determine the Educational facilities provided by
the Private sector towards the development of
Secondary Education in Abia State.

5. METHODOLOGY
• Two research questions and one hypothesis guided the study
which adopted the descriptive survey.
• The population of the study comprised all the 3238 teachers
drawn from 212 secondary schools in the State
• A sample of 320 teachers randomly drawn using stratified
random sampling was used for the study.
• The respondents responded to a validated 32 item instrument
titled Private Sectors Participation and Educational
Development Questionnaire (PSPEDQ) with a reliability index
of 0.78.
• Percentages mean and standard deviation were used to answer
the research questions
• While Z-test statistical method was used to test the hypothesis

6. FINDINGS
• The findings of the study revealed that private sectors
are yet to be fully involved in the administration and
provision of educational facilities for the
development of secondary education in Abia state.
• Based on the findings, it was recommended that
stakeholders and policy makers in the education
industry should create enabling environment which
will encourage greater private sectors participation
which will encourage greater private sectors
participation in the development of secondary
education in Abia State.

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