Intervention Fund and Provision of Furniture in Primary Schools in Nigeria: Retrospective Study of Education Trustfund

Abstract

This study investigated the utilisation of financial resources of the Education Trust Fund (ETF) on the provision of furniture in public primary schools in the South-West geo-political zone of Nigeria. Tax payers and the government had invested considerable amount of money in the nation’s public primary schools through the ETF. In spite of the huge financial resources invested on provision of furniture in the nation’s public primary schools, the present condition of furniture in most of the schools have not met the required standard. Two research questions were raised to guide the study. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study and data were generated from the e-library of the Education Trust Fund, now Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). The establishment of the ETF signified government commitment to improving the poor state of furniture and other infrastructure in the public primary
schools. ETF which was the foremost intervention agency in the education sector brought innovations which had some impacts on public primary schools. It represented stable and predictable flow of fund that was complementary to traditional budgetary allocations to public primary schools. ETF which was a household name within the education sector provided quality furniture in most public primary schools across Nigeria. It was recommended that fund must be appropriated on a continuous basis to step up the required funds for provision of furniture in the nation’s public primary schools to enable students and teachers have a environment
that is conducive for desired academic attainment.