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INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
There
is gainsaying the fact that education is very vital to the peace of socials,
political and economic development of any nation. This is why most nations of
the world strive to devote a sizeable proportion of their cross national income
into developing the educational sector.
According to world bank (2002) in
Nigeria between 7.6% and 7.9% of our annual expenditure is devoted to
education” management of primary education refer to the process of planning,
directing, staffing, coordinating, budgeting for reporting our primary
education system.
Primary education in Nigeria refers
to the education which children receive from the age of 6 years to 11 years
plus. It the foundation level of the educational system which runs for six
years and it is aimed at developing basic literacy numeracy, communication
skills and transmission of the culture of the people to younger generation.
The federal government of Nigeria has
taken the responsibility of financing education in Nigeria alone, it has dissolved
other source of finance and latter have them seen education as a national duty
to be perform. However, community, individual and organization in the financing
of education but this is not true in the real sense since government have taken
over primary schools completely from voluntary agencies embarking on a laudable
programme such as U.P.E and carryout the wages in school alone without a
slighted resources other source.
Although this government hold step was
highly appreciated. It did not last long as a result of the economic recession
brought about by deprecation of oil price in the world market government do not
find it simple to bring in community to participate in financing education and
the financial aspect of education is one of the major problem facing
educational development in Nigeria.
Before now, education in Nigeria has
passed through some certain stage of development before the advent of formal
education. Nigeria
use to have indigenous system of education which involves the participation
which involves the participation of all members of the communities. The western
kind of education was introduction an country this education was welcome by the
local communities because it create room for their participation of the local
communities hence the members of the missions. When government assured the full
control of education responsibility, all alone with financing it with oil money
the participation of local communities were not encouraged and this enhance distortion
to the entire educations system.
But note, before this assumption of
schools by the government, the voluntary agencies such as Christian, Muslim and
other organization were these responsible for education. The communities were
not left out their effort in participating for the financing of education, some
events beyond construction of schools, staff rooms for the teachers. A case in
point is that of Iguogun primary school Iguogun in Ovia South West Local
Government Area of Edo State. Where communities did participate in the
construction of school and even the staff rooms for the teachers.
The efforts were focus towards
government of education in these days before the take over by the government.
But now the area of government expenditure is widened and the economic of the
nation is in state of paralysis. In their regard the strength of government to
provide the necessary schools materials is weak, now the government sick for
alternative of sharing the responsibilities with other source of income.
Sincerely speaking, there is no head
hidden in the fact that Nigeria schools are below standard of normancy in view
of scarcity of resource to finance their schools and its facility are out of
use and irregular payment of teacher salaries. It the predicament that
government transformed the funding and administration of primary education to
local government has generated a lot of difficulties in the educational sector
because; the local government could not afford to shoulder this
responsibilities of primary schools. Primary education is left unconcerned for
since federal government couldn’t make authentic policy statement about whose
responsibility is it to handle this important level of education and this has
been the problem since till date.
Now, the primary education is been
handle by the federal government but things are not done in a normal ways, this
research therefore set act to analysis the community participation in primary
school administration in Ovia South West Local Government.
STATEMENT
OF THE PROBLEM
In
the time past, analysis has shown that primary education is in a great
predicament in Nigerian because of the ability of the federal government to
seek for alternative source of founding education especially from the local
communities, voluntary organization, individuals and philanthropists even
though it has been ascertain that government alone cannot provide necessary or
required materials. This has infant thrown the teaching and leaning situation
in primary school into a sad condition were unrest in this order of the day.
Ovia South West Local Government has
part of this larger society (Nigeria) has her own share of their problem, and
even presents a complex and peculiar situations for instance the teachers
salaries are not pay regularly, the teaching and learning situation are
jeopardized, the materials needed for teaching are not available, the school
building are out dated (dilapidated) and the management of primary school in a
state of confusion due to lack of participation of the communities in the
financing of primary school system.
Education serve as a major role or
therefore necessary for the communities to contribute or rather participate
adequately in the financing of primary schools especially at the level of the
primary schools education as the bedrock on which the progress or failure of
the whole nation hope on.
RESEARCH QUESTION
The
following are to be answered extensively as they will throw more light on the
extent while primary education can be encouraged in Nigeria as a whole of Ovia South
West in particular:
1. Does
availability of instructional materials and other classroom essential
facilities have any effect on the standard of primary education in Nigeria today?
2. To what
extent will communities’ participation in funding primary education help in improving
education of our pupils?
3. To what
extent can the joint participation between the government and local communities
enhance primary school?
4. To what
extent will community involvement enhance the management of primary schools facilities
and funds?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
research work is purposefully set out to investigate analysis and examine the
point in which community participation in financing education in Ovia South
West Local Government Area. It is a wide open and clear that the financial
burden of the primary education in Nigeria at large, Ovia South West precisely
cannot be over look and it cannot be left for the local government alone or
else the primary education will decay and then the entire nation will collapses.
Also, the study will also help to
correct the following standard of primary education y encouraging and
challenging both individual, voluntary agencies and local
government/communities to reconsider response to pounding basic facilities and
adequate financial and adequate financial predicament.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The
need for education in our society and nation at large cannot be over emphasized
because it make the people easy read but difficulties to rive, easy to govern
but impossible to sustain throughout this research work we shall no the extent
to which the people of the land have satisfied the extent to which the people
of the land have satisfied the above statement.
Again Ovia South West Local Government
has no record about its literacy of educational programme. Therefore it is
important to carry out these types of study as it will be useful to educational
planners and organizers of the various educational programmes of local
government in particular.
The greatest problem that our education
programmes have been experiencing till today is lack of sufficient fund to
carry out educational programmes already planned activities.
Then what shall we do to remedy this
highly situation? This research work will suggest adequate solution which will be
of interest to those concerned with education development plans.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This
study is geared towards investigating the role of community participation in
financing primary Education. Mean while this impediment of communities not
participating in this financing of primary education can be observed throughout
the state and country at large however this research work is specked to primary
schools in Ovia South west Local Government and it is restricted to some
village under Ovia South West Local government area of Edo state known as
Iguobazuwa, Umaza and Iguogun presidely.
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Friday 25 October 2013
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN FINANCING PRIMARY EDUCATION
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