APPRAISAL OF MANAGEMENT MEASURES FOR CONTROLLING FUND WASTAGES AND MISAPPROPRIATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ANAMBRA STATE

SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Educational Management And Policy

CONTRIBUTORS:

Odumodu, A. C.
Omenyi, A. S.

ABSTRACT:

The study appraised the management measures adopted for controlling fund wastages and misappropriation in secondary schools in Anambra State. Three research questions guided the study. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study which was carried out in Anambra State. The population of the study comprised 270 respondents made up of all the 14 financial supervisors in the Ministry of Education and 256 secondary school principals in the State. The entire population was involved in the study. A researcher–developed instrument titled “Fund Wastages and Misappropriation Control Questionnaire” (FWMCQ) was used for data collection. The instrument which was structured on a four-point scale has a total of 40 items in three sections, 1, 2 and 3. The instrument was validated by three experts who are all lecturers in the Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach Alpha. The reliability coefficients of .75, .74 and .70 were obtained for sections 1, 2, and 3 of the instrument respectively. The overall coefficient of 0.73, was obtained for the instrument. The researcher together with six research assistants directly administered the instrument on the respondents. Mean ratings were used to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested using z- test at 0.05 level of significance. The study found among others that financial supervisors in the Ministry of Education and secondary school principals in Anambra State adopted to a low extent the detective and corrective measures for controlling fund wastages and misappropriation in secondary schools in the State. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that financial supervisors and secondary school principals in the State should adopt to a high extent, the preventive, detective and corrective measures for controlling fund wastages and misappropriation. The implications of the findings, and limitations of the study were presented and suggestions for further studies were also made.

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