Influence of Principals’ Financing Initiatives on Learners’ Participation Rates in Technical, Vocational Education, and Training Institutions in Nairobi County, Kenya
Abstract
Financing higher education is a challenge that governments all over the world
have struggled with for many years and in the course of their struggle, various
funding models have evolved with time. The main goal of this study was to
establish the influence of the principals’ financing initiative on students’
participation rates in Technical, Vocational Education, and Training
institutions in Nairobi County, Kenya. To address the main objective of the
study, the research focused on four specific objective, which were to examine
the influence of principal’s mobilization of financial resources from non-state
actors’ on student participation rates, to establish the level to which the
principal’s mobilization of financial resources from development partners’
influences student participation rates, ascertain the degree to which the
principal’s financial resource mobilization from income-generating activities
influences student participation rates and to determine the extent to which
principal’s lobby for extra government grants influence students’ participation
rates in Technical, Vocational Education, and Training institutions in Nairobi
City County, Kenya. The study adopted a non-experimental hypothesis-testing
research design. The target population of the study was the six TVET
institutions within Nairobi City County. The unit of observation included a
total population of 6 principals, 12 deputy principals, 6 dean of students, 720
instructors, and 48 000 students. Both census and simple random sampling
technique was employed to select the sample size. The sample size comprised
of 6 principals, 6 dean of students, 80 section heads, and 780 students. A
questionnaire with both closed ended and open ended questions was used to
collect data from the selected sample. For quantitative data, both descriptive
and inferential statistics analysis was conducted using SPSS version 27 and
the results was presented by frequencies and percentages in figures and tables.
Pearson Correlation was conducted to the relationship between the variables.
For qualitative data, thematic analysis was conducted. The study finding
revealed a statistically significant relationship between principal’s
mobilizations of financial resources from non-state actors’, development
partners, income-generating activities and lobby for extra government grants
and students’ participation rates in Technical, Vocational Education, and
Training institutions. The p-values; 0.001. 0.001, 0.003 and 0.002 respectively
indicated this. Overall, the study concluded that the principal’s financing
initiative have a positive impact on student participation rate in Technical,
Vocational Education, and Training institutions
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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