Decentralization and education service delivery in public secondary schools in Sheema district, Western Uganda
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2017-10
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Kampala International University, College of Education, Open and Distance Learning
Abstract
The study was set to establish the effect of decentralization on education service delivery in Sheema district western Uganda. The study objectives included assessing the relationship between political decentralization on educational service delivery, assess the effect of administrative decentralization on educational service delivery and to find out the effect of fiscal decentralization on educational service delivery. The study was conducted from Sheema district in the public secondary schools in Sheema district. The study employed descriptive and correlation design. The data was collected from 150 respondents who were teachers, local leaders and district education officials. The data was collected through the use of research questionnaire and interview guide from the selected respondents. The study findings were that political decentralization has low significant relationship with educational service delivery in public secondary schools in
Sheema district hence political decentralization does not have a significant effect on educational services delivery. The findings on the second objective were that administrative decentralization affect educational service delivery on the third objective fiscal centralization had a significant effect on educational service delivery in public secondary schools, the relationship between the variables is significant meaning that fiscal decentralization affect educational service delivery. The researcher concluded that political decentralization does not contribute much to educational service delivery in public secondary schools in Sheema district…
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A thesis dissertation presented to the College of Education, Distance and E-learning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award a degree of Masters of Educational Management and Administration of Kampala International University
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Decentralization, Education service delivery, Public Secondary Schools, Sheema district, Western Uganda