Analysis of Budgets Allocation for Public Secondary Schools in Oyo State, Nigeria (1992-1999)

Abstract

This is a report of an experiment that was carried out on the budget capital allocation to secondary education, student enrollment, number of schools and available classroom in Oyo State. The work aims at establishing basis for suggesting efficient practical planning guidelines to the government Oyo State. A test was carried out to examine whether or not there existed during the period under review, some statistical relationships between the capital budget allocation and the following variables: student enrolment, Numbers of schools and available classrooms. Using simple regression analysis and testing at 95% confident limit it was discovered that capital budget allocation has no significant linear relationships with students’ enrolment, number of schools and available classrooms. The Research showed R-square of 0.90%, 46.10%, 0.8%, 18.2% and 4.06% for education capital allocations versus students’ enrolment; education capital allocation versus number of schools, education capital allocation versus number of available classroom; number of available classroom versus students enrolment and students enrolment versus number of schools respectively. From the study, it is reasonable to conclude that there is need for the government to allocate more funds to secondary education capital projects and that in education planning of secondary schools the above variables could be considered in line with fund allocation.