The Impact of Free and Compulsory Education Policy in Abak L.G.A. of Akwa Ibom State
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The study examined the impact of free and compulsory education and Educational development in Akwa Ibom State in general and Abak Local Government Area in particular. It was agreed that education has significant influence more substantially in societal development in developing nations. Therefore, educational has a controlling impact over the transformation of societies, communities, individual or group of individuals and families which leads to the reduction of low income rate, poverty and rural-urban immigration. The study employed a survey research design and simple random sampling technique was used. The main tools of enquiry was questionnaire and interview methods. Data were collected through the used of both primary and secondary sources. The study adopted both descriptive and inferential statistics where simple percentage were used to answer research questions and chi-square was used to test research hypotheses. Sustainable development theory was employed as theoretical framework to explain the work. The major finding revealed that there is a significant relationship between free and compulsory education and educational development in the study area. It was recommended that sound planning for a rapidly expanding industry like education requires the production of the right amount and kind of manpower needed-teaching and non-teaching staff; and also, the state ministry of education and the state secondary education board should check further dilution of secondary schools by ensuring that private and public schools confirm to the standards.
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Compulsory Education, Educational development, infrastructure, student performance and social change