The Impacts of Parents‟ Contributions Upon Students‟ Equitable Access to Secondary Education in Missungwi District, Mwanza Tanzania
| dc.creator | SIGARETI, January M. L. | |
| dc.date | 2022-02-07T11:34:23Z | |
| dc.date | 2022-02-07T11:34:23Z | |
| dc.date | 2013 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-21T10:11:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-21T10:11:11Z | |
| dc.description | This study investigated the Impact of Parents‟ Contribution upon Students‟ Equitable Accesses of Secondary Education in Misungwi District. In particular the study sought to examine the contributions that parents incurred in financing secondary education, to assess the impacts of parents‟ contribution upon students‟ equitable access to education and to examine the internal efficiency attributable to contributions in secondary schools. The scope of the Study was all Public Secondary Schools in Missungwi District. Ten secondary schools were randomly sampled to obtain 384 respondents: where with 361 students were randomly selected. Moreover, 22 Heads of Schools and one District Education Officer were purposively selected. This study was carried out by using both cross-section and quasi-experimental designs. In case of research approach mixed method was used. With respect to instruments: questionnaires for students, interview guide for school heads, DEO and parents were used to collect findings. The study found that school fees, uniforms, transport, text books and stationeries are among the direct contributions incurred by parents, also the study found that, dropout rate, truancy, absenteeism, pregnancy were among the impacts caused by the involvement of parents in contributions. The study found that apart from contributions there were other factors which caused poor internal efficiency of students in schools. These were ignorance, diseases, poverty, indiscipline cases, conflicting instructions, lack of foods at schools, staffing situation and shortage of teaching and learning resources. The study recommends that the government should xvi establish proper ways of utilizing the available resources in financing education and initiate income generating activities such as education trust funds. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://41.93.33.43:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/348 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/85723 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | SAUT | |
| dc.subject | Parents Contributions: Equitable Access: Financial Assistance | |
| dc.title | The Impacts of Parents‟ Contributions Upon Students‟ Equitable Access to Secondary Education in Missungwi District, Mwanza Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Thesis |