Internally Generated Revenue and School Plant Maintenance in Kwara State Pubic Secondary Schools, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the internally generated revenue and school plant maintenance in Kwara State public secondary schools, Nigeria. The research adopted descriptive research design of survey type. The population of the study was made up of 7273 teachers and principals from the existing 334 public secondary schools in Kwara State. Random sampling technique was used to select 40 public secondary schools representing 12% of the schools and 415 respondents made up of 375 teachers and 40 principals representing six percent of the total number of teachers and principals used in the study. The researchers used two self-developed instruments tagged “Internally Generated Revenue Checklist” (IGRC) and “School Plant Maintenance Questionnaire” (SPMQ). IGRC comprises of items on IGR and SPMQ comprised of items on five identified school plant maintenance practices. These include corrective, preventive, shut down, running and breakdown maintenance. The instruments were validated by three experts in the Department of Educational Management. Only one hypothesis was formulated and four research questions were raised for the study. Descriptive statistics of Mean, Standard Deviation, Rank Ordering and Percentage Average were used to answer the research questions, while inferential statistic of Pearson(r) was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. The hypothesis tested revealed that there was a significant relationship between internally generated revenue (IGR) and school plant maintenance in Kwara State public secondary schools, Nigeria. The amount N15,274,556 devoted for school maintenance in 2014/15 had the highest percentage average of 66.9% and finally, preventive maintenance is the common type of school plant maintenance in public secondary schools in Kwara State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should engage in other sources of internally generated revenue for school plant maintenance.