Internal Efficiency in Secondary Schools in Kwara State

This book is based on a comparative analysis of public and private schools on the premises that every child deserves an excellent education regardless of his or her parental background and irrespective of the school he or she attends. The study identified adequate physical and material resources, quality of principals and discipline process as the best predictors of internal efficiency of schools.Other important efficiency variables were quality teachers, supervision, parental involvement and academic learning time. Therefore, this is an invaluable reference book for students, lecturers,practitioners in schools as well as educational administrators. The study found that private schools were more efficient than public schools.There was more discipline and better supervision in private schools than in public secondary schools. Therefore this book gives an insight into predictors of internal efficiency of schools.