GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

The focus of this study is to investigate the management of educational funds and facilities in the implementation of the Universal Basic Education programme in Imo state, Nigeria. A correlational survey research design was adopted for the study. The study had a target population that had to do with all the SUBEB staff and, head teachers of public Primary Schools in Imo State. Stratified sampling technique was used to select 20 staffs of SUBEB, 40 head teachers, and 110 teachers in primary schools in Imo State. The stratification gave a total of 170 respondents used for the study. The research instruments used for data collection was a structured questionnaire title “Education Fund and Facility Management Questionnaire (EFFMQ)”. The questionnaire was made of two sections (Section A and B) while Section A handled the demographic variables of respondents such as gender, educational qualification, etc. Section B measured the main variables of the objective of the study such as raising funds for management of schools, strategies used in the management of education facilities, effect of education fund and effective implementation of universal basic education. The questionnaire was face and content validation by experts in test, measurement and evaluation in Imo State University. The reliability coefficient of the instrument obtained using the Cronbach alpha statistical tool was ‘r’=0.80, considered high enough for the intended purpose. The researcher subjected the data generated for the study to appropriate statistical techniques such as percentage analysis used in answering the research question while multiple and simple regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. From the data analysis, school fees” was rated the most adopted strategies of raising funds for management of schools in Imo State with the highest frequency and percentage of 71(41.76%) while “PTA Collections” was rated the least 5(2.94%) of the strategies of raising funds for schools. Hypothetically, the study affirmed that there is significant influence of the strategies used in the management of education facilities on effective implementation of universal basic education in Imo State and that education fund significantly affects the effective implementation of universal basic education in Imo State. The study concluded that the federal and state governments are responsible for all educational policies, especially policies governing quality in education, adequacy of staff and equipment, staff discipline, the curriculum, evaluation of learning, financial administration and in general ensuring that the national objectives of education are pursued. One of the recommendations made in the study was that the school administrators and managers need to be efficient and pro-active in the management of facilities to ensure a hitch-free knowledge delivery and achievement of educational goals and objectives.