This research covered or investigated on
the roles of education tax
fund (ETF) in the physical
development of Nigerian primary
schools, with particular reference to some
selected primary schools in Ebyia Development Centre of Ebonyi
State.
In the course of the study the following research questions were used:
1.
Does
the Education Tax Fund has any role to
play in the physical development of
primary schools in Ebyia Local Government Area?
2.
Secondly,
does the Education Tax Fund projects
have any effect on the pupils of the selected primary school in Ebyia
Development Centre?
3.
Thirdly,
who decided on the nature of project(s)
to be implemented and how?
4.
Again, to what extent has education Tax Fund
achieved its objectives of improving educational facilities and infrastructure development
of primary schools in Ebyia Development Centre.
5.
What are the major constraints that militate
against the achievement of Education Tax
Fund objectives?
Based
on the above research questions,
the following findings were made
accordingly.
Firstly, it was discovered that the role
of Education Tax Fund in the physical development of Nigerian
primary schools in Ebyia development centre in particular is quite enormous.
Secondly,
the projects implemented by the
fund- ETF were found to have positive effect on the pupils of the selected
primary school in Ebyia development center.
This was observed through the positive changes in the behaviour of these
pupils and equally their performances in their subsequent examination records.
Thirdly, it was uncovered that the school head decides on the
nature of projects to be implemented and
how they should be.
Another
findings shows that education Tax
fund has achieved its objectives of
improving educational facilities and
infrastructure development of primary schools in Ebyia Development Center
The fund
does this by; ensuring that all
its projects in the primary schools were
completed on time; providing necessary facilities like equipment for
primary science and other technical
subjects, textbooks for school
library. Constructing staff room blocks
and classroom buildings in these schools
in Ebyia Development Centre
Finally, it was equally discovered that
some constraints work against the achievement of education Tax Fund objective. And this constraints ranges from
the vandalisation of the projects implemented by Education Tax Fund, lack of
professionals that could make adequate use of learning aids provided by the ETF; and robbery incident in
these schools which has led to loss of some facilities provided to facilitate
teaching - learning.
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