An investigation into the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeria

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dc.creatorOgunode Niyi Jacob
dc.date2020-06-23
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-21T07:53:54Z
dc.date.available2023-08-21T07:53:54Z
dc.descriptionThe study investigated the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeria. Questionnaire was adopted for the study. The sample of the study comprised 80 private schools administrators. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to select the sample from the population for the study. To ensure the validity of the instrument, test retest was employed to validate the reliability of the instrument. Simple percentage and chi-square was used to analyze the data collected for the study. The result collected revealed that COVID-19 Pandemic has impact on private school finances; COVID-19 Pandemic influences retrenchment of staff in private school; COVID-19 government intervention funds did not get to private schools proprietors and majorities of proprietress of private schools in Gwagwalada area council have not been able to pay their staff for the past two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on this findings, the researcher hereby recommends that the government should provide specially intervention funds for the private schools with low interest rate. Based on the results obtained from the study, it was recommended that government at the federal and states levels should make provision for the private schools to access special intervention loans with low interest rate so that the private schools owners should be able to pay salaries to their staffen-US
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dc.identifierhttps://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/399
dc.identifier10.31149/ijie.v3i6.399
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.umsida.ac.id/handle/123456789/14802
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherResearch Parks Publishing LLCen-US
dc.relationhttps://journals.researchparks.org/index.php/IJIE/article/view/399/376
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2020 International Journal on Integrated Educationen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en-US
dc.sourceInternational Journal on Integrated Education; Vol. 3 No. 6 (2020): IJIE; 35-44en-US
dc.source2620-3502
dc.source2615-3785
dc.source10.31149/ijie.v3i6
dc.subjectCOVID-19en-US
dc.subjectimpacten-US
dc.subjectprivate schoolsen-US
dc.titleAn investigation into the impact of COVID-19 on private schools in Gwagwalada area council of FCT, Nigeriaen-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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