A Review of Challenges of Adequate Funding and Effective Administration of Secondary Schools in South East Nigeria

The study examined challenges of adequate funding and effective administration of secondary schools in South East, Nigeria. It used a fundamental analysis method to consider effects of these challenges facing secondary schools such as: poor funding, lack of instructional facilities, inadequate classrooms, inadequate and low quality teachers, polluted learning environment, poor supervision, over population, school-community relationship, indiscipline among staff and students, corruption and misappropriation of funds would have on effective administration of schools. Findings of the paper established that proper management of these public crises coupled with provision of adequate funding would have a positive effect on the performance of secondary schools in South East, Nigeria. Paper therefore recommended that state governments and other stakeholders should endeavour to arm principals of schools with adequate funds that would enable them to effectively administer the schools to lead to an improved performance in the years ahead.