An Assessment of Local Government Financing Towards Quality Education in Secondary Schools in Tanzania: a Case Study of Karatu District
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The University of Dodoma University of Dodoma Institutional Repository http://repository.udom.ac.tz Social Sciences Master Dissertations 2014 An assessment of local government financing towards quality education in secondary schools in Tanzania: A case study of Karatu district Salutari, Marseli The University of Dodoma Salutari, M. (2014). An assessment of local government financing towards quality education in secondary schools in Tanzania: A case study of Karatu district (Master's dissertation). The University of Dodoma, Dodoma. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/2023 Downloaded from UDOM Institutional Repository at The University of Dodoma, an open access institutional repository. AN ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCING TOWARDS QUALITY EDUCATION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN TANZANIA: A CASE STUDY OF KARATU DISTRICT By MARSELI SALUTARI Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Administration of the University of Dodoma The University of Dodoma October, 2014 CERTIFICATION The undersigned certifies that has read and hereby recommends for acceptance by the University of Dodoma a dissertation entitled:“An Assessment of Local Government Financing towards Quality Education in Secondary Schools in Tanzania: A Case of Karatu District”, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of public administration of the University of Dodoma. _________________________ Dr. Philemon Sengati (SUPERVISOR) Date_________________ i DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT I Marseli Salutari, declare that this dissertation is my own original work and that it has not been presented and will not be presented to any other University for a similar or any other degree award. Signature________________________ No part of this dissertation may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means without prior written permission of the author or University of Dodoma. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The completion of this study makes me familiar with other people with different status in life. Those people who helped me in different ways complete the study. I came to realize that without the help of other people I would not have been able to complete this study. Accordingly, I would like to express the deepest thanks to the Almighty God for giving me life and strength to accomplish this task. Furthermore, I express my deepest gratitude to my Dr Philemon Sengati (supervisor), who worked hard in providing intellectual guidance and assistance in the completion of the study. He guided, advised, corrected and criticized me in a professional manner to guarantee success. Likewise, my truthful thanks and flow of gratitude be to my wife (Akwilina Meroli) and my lovely children (Denis and Dorine) who prayed and pray always for me in order to complete this study. Additionally, articulated is my deepest thanks to my friends (Manonga, Elias, Mukulu, Karau and James) and Master of Public Administration colleagues who provided me advices and encouragement during this hard period of conducting my research. Heartfelt gratitude also to Dr Hussein Sinda, Dr Mark Paul Diyammi and Mr Abiud Bongole for their support and guidance they accorded me during my study. Eventually, I profoundly thank all my lecturers at the School of Social Science who have adequately guided and equipped me with both theoretical and practical skills. Recognized is the contribution of my respondents to the success of the study through their valuable responses. iii DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to my parents; the Tlatlaa (Emeliana and Salutari) and my beloved sister (Theodosia) who provided both financial and moral support in my study. May God bless them. iv ABSTRACT The study was about the Assessment of the local government financing towards quality education in public schools in Karatu district. The study particularly sought to determine whether there is relationship between finance/funds provided by local government and students‘ performance in public secondary schools in Tanzania. In fact, most of public secondary schools get inadequate amount of funds which is also associated with delay and this obviously has negative consequences on students‘ performance. This study therefore investigated the financial mechanism used by local government in funds allocation in secondary schools. A sample of 75 respondents was made use of and these were randomly .The methods used in data collection are interviews, questionnaire and documentary review. The statistical package for social science (SPSS) was used for management of data and analysis. Unveiled were findings with regard to the study notably depicted that local government has an inadequate and deplorable amount of funds, experiences delay of funds, funds not allocated on time, pitiable management of funds and poor audit of the allocated funds which seemingly and apparently become persistently detrimental problems associated with the funds received in public secondary schools. The study recommends that, heads of schools should be more creative in formulating different projects around schools for the purpose of generating incomes as well as frequent audit so as to avoid misuse of the funds allocated by stakeholders in education sector. v TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATION ............................................................................................................. i DECLARATION AND COPYRIGHT ............................................................................. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................... iii DEDICATION ................................................................................................................. iv ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................................ x LIST OF FIGURES ......................................................................................................... xi LIST OF PLATE ............................................................................................................. xii LIST OF APPENDICES ................................................................................................ xiii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS ...................................................... xiv CHAPTER ONE :INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY .... 1 1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Background to the Problem ..................................................................................... 1 1.2 Statement of the Problem ........................................................................................ 9 1.3 Objectives of the Study ......................................................................................... 10 1.3.1 General Objectives ................................................................................................ 10 1.3.2 Specific Objectives ................................................................................................ 11 1.4 Research Questions ............................................................................................... 11 1.5 Significance of the Study ....................................................................................... 11 1.6 Limitation of the Study .......................................................................................... 12 1.7 Conclusion ............................................................................................................. 13 CHAPTER TWO :LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................................ 14 2.0 Introduction ........................................................................................................... 14 2.1 Conceptual Clarity ................................................................................................. 14 2.1.1 Quality Education .................................................................................................. 14 2.1.2 Local Government ................................................................................................. 15 2.1.3 Financing ............................................................................................................... 15 2.2 Theoretical Literature Review ............................................................................... 17 2.2.1 Decentralization Theory ........................................................................................ 17 vi 2.2.2 Structural Functionalism Theory ........................................................................... 18 2.2.3 Expectancy Theory ................................................................................................ 19 2.2.4 Motivation Theory ................................................................................................. 20 2.3 Relevance of the Theories to the Study ................................................................. 21 2.4 Empirical Literature Review ................................................................................. 23 2.5 Research Gap ......................................................................................................... 30 2.6 Conceptual Framework ........................................................................................