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    ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE COST OF SECONDARY EDUCATION AND CONTROL IN THE NORTH CENTRAL GEO-POLITICAL ZONE OF NIGERIA
    (DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT FACULTY OF EDUCATION, NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY KEFFI, 2021-05-16) Abedoh, Ahmed Yakubu
    This research thesis titled Analysis of Private Cost of Secondary Education and in the North Central Geo-political Zone of Nigeria, was conducted for the purpose of determining and analysing the private cost of education incurred by parents in urban and rural areas based on the course of study and class level of their students. The study adopted ex-post facto research design since the parents have already incurred the cost on their children. The population of the study consisted of 597,273 parents of students in the senior secondary schools and the sample of the study using Kregcie and Morgan (1970) table comprised of 4497 and 4422 parents in urban and rural respectively. The study adopted multi-stage, stratified random sampling techniques. The zone was first and foremost stratified into states while the selected states were dichotomized into urban and rural areas then into classes before applying the simple random sampling technique to obtain the required data from the respondents. In other to obtain the required data from the selected states and FCT (though not a state but added for comparative purposes), the researcher developed an instrument termed Checklist on Private Cost of Secondary School Education in North Central Geo-political Zone (CPCSSCE). The checklist was submitted to two experts in educational research who validated and rated it to be 78% and 81% respectively on the indices of rational validity. The instrument was subjected to pilot survey to test its reliability. Using split half method to determine the internal consistency of the installment, the data collected was randomly divided into two and labeled either even and odd numbers. The correlations of the test were calculated using spearman’s brown formula and reliability coefficient of 0.88 was obtained. The data were collected and analysed using cost analysis codes developed by the researcher as well as descriptive statistics to answer the research questions while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using TWO-ANOVA statistics. TWO-ANOVA was used because the variations in the study were from two sources termed treatment and block. The results indicated that there were significant relationship between private costs of secondary school education in urban and rural areas, class level and course of study. The findings show that the parents incurred both the academic and the incidental cost of education on their children. More so, the unit cost of education on the average was discovered to be N388, 366.00 which was enormous particularly on low income earners and the rural dwellers. Based on these findings, it was concluded that students whose parents cannot afford these school charges may likely trek to and from school, stay in school without meal or drop out of school and constituting menace in the society. The study therefore recommended that scholarship should be given to indigent children by government and non-governmental organizations to enable every child irrespective his or her background access education.