ANALYSIS OF SCHOOL PLANT MAINTENANCE IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN IBADAN METROPOLIS NIGERIA: FINANCIAL PLANNING IMPLICATIONS.

Alabi, Christianah Oluwakemi

Department of Curriculum and Institutional Study

Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Oyo State

E-mail: christianah.kemi@yahoo.com

Abstract

This study investigates the school plant maintenance in public secondary schools in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria. Frequency count, simple percentage and T-test were used for the study. The targeted population consisted of 60 selected public secondary schools using stratified simple random sampling. Thus, 60 head-teachers and students participated in the study. The reliability co-efficient of 0.75 was obtained for questionnaire at 0.05 alpha level. The findings of the study revealed that the status of public schools plants in the opinion of the respondents is good and in terms of functionality of available school plants such as staff room, classroom and library are functional but generator, school bus, introduction technology workshop, toilet laboratory – physics, chemistry, biology and agricultural science are not functional in the school visited. The school plant maintenance activities are not covered as expected. In terms of time or period for general repairs of damaged school plants. There is no specific period or time for the general repairs of damaged school plants and schools are not governed by rules and regulations regarding the maintenance of school plants. This was indicated by the number of respondents who responded negatively to the statement. It was therefore recommended that the government should make funds available to each school so that school plant maintenance should be taken care of and each head teacher should spend the money allocated appropriately to maintain the school plants. Each head teacher should inculcate maintenance culture and head teacher, teachers and students should involve in maintenance. Government should employ maintenance staff into each school.