Public Secondary Schools Students Defection to Private Schools: A Case Study of School Managers in Nigeria

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Published: Feb 28, 2025
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Inadequate Teachers and principals, Lack of Principals for junior Public Secondary Schools, dilapidated conditions of public secondary schools in Nigeria, lack of public secondary schools laboratories, lack of crafts and workshops facilities for students use, lack of counseling’s department in public secondary schools, insecurity in public secondary schools, why parents have resolved to send their children to public secondary schools, school managers management strategies in controlling public secondary schools students defection to private secondary schools.

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Christian Nwakanma
Department of Business Education, Madonna University Nigeria, Okija Campus, Anambra State

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This paper investigated public secondary schools’ students’ defection to private schools: A case study of school managers in Nigeria. Imo state is a state in Nigeria Meanwhile, Imo state is chosen to represent Nigeria as one of the states in Nigeria. The population of this study is 20,000 which comprised 15,000 males and 5,000 females in medium and large-scale businesses in Imo state. Stratified sampling was used to 2, 00 respondents which made up of 110 males and 90 females from Owerri municipality and mbaitoli local government area in Imo state. This paper adopted descriptive survey research design aimed at identifying the meaning of fraud, different types of frauds and ways of mitigating the effects of frauds in medium and large-scale businesses. One research question and one hypothesis guided this study. Instrument used for data collection was researcher developed questionnaire “public secondary schools students’ defection to private schools: A case study of school managers in Nigeria was used” with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists in business education using Cronbach alpha statistics to determine the reliability coefficient at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument is reliable to be used for this study. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data while t test of independent was used to test the hypothesis. It was recommended in this study many public secondary schools in Nigeria are no more conducive and attractive for teaching and learning because of old walls and leaking roofing sheets. Government should provide funds for management of public schools among others.

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Christian Nwakanma. (2025). Public Secondary Schools Students Defection to Private Schools: A Case Study of School Managers in Nigeria. Knowledgeable Research: A Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewd Refereed Journal, 4(02), 50–68. Retrieved from https://knowledgeableresearch.com/index.php/1/article/view/382
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