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    ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ON GIRLCHILD ACCESS TO SECONDARY EDUCATION IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY (FCT), ABUJA, NIGERIA.
    (Department of Environmental Management, Nasarawa State University, Keffi., 2021-07-05) Alika, Augusta Ngozi
    The study centered on the "assessment of school-based management committee on girl-child access to secondary education in federal capital territory, Abuja the study was guided by 3 research questions with corresponding 3 objectives and 2 null hypotheses. The research design used for this study was descriptive survey research design. The total population of the study consisted of 3553 teachers drawn from 159 public junior secondary schools in the 6 Area councils in FCT, Abuja. The sample size of the study consisted of 345 respondents drawn from 17 junior secondary schools using simple random sampling technique. Researcher’s Self developed instrument that consisted of 24 items was used for data collection. The instrument was validated and it yielded 0.75 as logical validity index. The instrument was pilot tested on 20 teachers and the coefficient of internal consistency of 0.83 was obtained. Descriptive statistics of mean and, standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while spearman correlation was used to test all the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The major findings of the study indicated that the level of girl-child access to education is high, and there is a significant relationship between school-based management committee and girl-child access to education. It is concluded that school-based management committee improved girl-child access to secondary education in federal capital territory Abuja. It improved the competency of teachers in school system. The study recommends that SBMC should put in place activities that is significantly geared towards increasing, students’ access to junior secondary education especially the Girl-child. This can be done through provision of policies that can checkmate and regularize the enrolment, retention and completion of girl - child education in public junior secondary schools in FCT, Abuja, Nigeria.