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Item The necessity and dynamics of public-private partnership in the provision of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Nigerian experience(2020-09) Isuku, E. J.Nigeria has one of the largest higher education systems in Sub-Saharan Africa with over 360 higher institutions in the country. Thus higher education enrolment has grown in the country over the past few years with over 1.7 million students at all levels of higher education in the country. This growth reflects the number of students in both public and private higher institutions in the country. It is important to note that private institutions have played-important role in higher education enrolment in Nigeria over the past few years. However despite these impressive statistics, the number of prospecting students to the Nigeria higher education system and indeed in Sub-Saharan African countries still pales into insignificance when compared with other regions in the world. Access into HE in Nigeria still averaged about 10%, while it is just about 6% in Sub- Saharan Africa. As most regions and countries in the world adopt the public private partnership to expand access to education, it is recommended that Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan Africa countries adopt the option of PPP in view of the numerous benefits associated with it to ensure a universal higher education access to the ever growing youth populationItem Depoliticising the financing of higher education in fiscally challenged sub-Saharan Africa economies: the Nigerian case(2019-05) Isuku, E. J.The concern of this paper was to analyse the need to depoliticise the financing of higher education, and to suggest more sustainable financial channels to improving higher education financing in order to achieve an efficient and effective higher education System that is capable of performing its social and economic development functions in the competitive global marketItem Policy options for effective financing of university education in Nigeria: An international comparison approach(2016) Isuku, E. J.The debate about the task of financing education in general and universities in particular has continued to generate serious concern among stakeholders all over the world; and more specifically for developing countries like Nigeria. Despite various efforts in the country by successive governments at initiating policies that could enhance effective financing of the sector, there seems to be no significant improvement over the past decades. Adequate funding of universities is often believed to be one of the strong means for increasing the stock of human capital that is needed by a country for successful economic growth and development. However, in Nigeria, the problem of financing education in general and university education in particular is severe. For a long time now, the sector has contended with the challenges of inadequate funding by the government and other organizations. The problem of insufficient funding of universities is further complicated by the rising social and economic burden confronting the government in the face of declining economic fortunes and inflation riding education budget. This development has serious implication for university product quality and national output. The study is intended to advocate for globally effective policies that would improve education funding in NigeriaItem Size factors as determinants of recurrent unit cost of public secondary education in Edo State, South-South Nigeria(Sciendo-DeGruyter, 2016-09) Isuku, E. J.This study, investigated the influence of school size factors (enrolment, average-class-size and student-teacher-ratio) on the recurrent unit cost of public secondary education in Edo State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. This design was considered appropriate because it provided a strategy for obtaining and describing the existing conditions without any manipulation. The multi-stage sampling techniques were used to select 207 out of the total 509 conventional public secondary schools across the State. Two inventories were used to collect secondary data from the 207 schools and the State Ministry of Education officials. The school inventory was used to obtain data on individual school size features and recurrent expenditures while the inventory for Ministry of Education was used to collect aggregate school enrolment, classes, staff and recurrent expenditures. Two research questions were raised, while data were analyzed using the multiple regression technique. Result indicate that Size factors had significant influence on the recurrent unit cost of public secondary education (F(5.163)=32.6: p<0.05). They jointly accounted for 49% of the Variation in recurrent unit cost. The relative contributions of the independent variables were as ranked: enrolment (ß = -0.71; t= -6.14; p<0.05), student-teacher-ratio (ß= -0.66; t= -3.34; p<0.05) and average-class-size (ß = -0.40; t= -1.75; p<0.05). This implied that enrolment and student-teacher-ratio factors were the strongest predictors of unit cost. All the three size factors were inversely related to unit cost. A marginal unit increase in enrolment; average-class-size and student-teacher-ratio reduced recurrent unit cost by N113.92, N234.01 and N584.85 respectively. The relationship between expanding the size factors and recurrent unit cost was U-shaped, indicating that there were Optimum sizes for the various size factors. These were: enrolment- 712 students per school, average-class-size- 45 students and student-teacher ratio- 50:1 respectively Enrolment and Student-teacher-ratio factors had significant influence in the reduction of recurrent unit cost of public education. Therefore, enrolment and student-teacher-ratio could be increased to the Optimum level as a cost reduction strategy in public schools. This could be achieved through merger of small-sized inefficient schoolsItem Increasing access and reducing operational unit cost in public secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria(2012) Isuku, E. J.; Emunemu, B. O.The problem of increasing financial burden of education in the face of other pressing macroeconomic needs poses serious challenges to educational development in Nigeria. Moreover, there is an increasing demand for education at a time when government revenues are dwindling. This problem compounded by the inefficient use of available resources in schools. This has resulted in a high cost of public school operation. This has necessitated the need to explore alternative means of improving control over the cost of education and increase access to public schools. This study, therefore investigated the influence of a number of size factors (enrolment, average class size and student-teacher ratio) on the operational unit cost of public secondary schools in Edo Stale. Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design of ex-post facto type. Multistage sampling techniques were used to select 207 out of the total of 509 conventional public secondary school across the three senatorial districts of Edo State. Two inventories were used to generate secondary data from the selected schools and two State Ministry of Education officials. The school inventory was used to obtain data on individual school size features and recurrent expenditures while the inventory for Ministry of Education was used to collect aggregate school enrolment, class, staff and recurrent expenditures in the state during the research period. Three research questions were answered and data analysed using descriptive statistics. The results showed that increasing the various size factors invariable reduces operational unit cost of schooling and hence, generated monetary savings for the school System in the state. Notably the results indicated that the reduction in unit cost is not linear, implying that cost reduced at a declining rates. Therefore, enrolment average class size and student-teacher ratio could be increased to a permissible level as a cost reduction strategy in public schools