Cost-Related Entrepreneurial Management Practices and Financing of Private Secondary Schools in Rubaga Division – Kampala (Uganda)

Year 2019, , 461 - 471, 01.07.2019

Sande Erunao Muwanguzi Badru Musisi Gyaviira Musoke Genza

https://doi.org/10.24331/ijere.573952

Abstract

Faced with an increasingly escalating problem of private school financing, the study examined the
contribution of existing cost-related entrepreneurial management practices on the financing of
private schools in Rubaga Division (Kampala). More specifically, the study considered the
contribution of user charges and payment in-kind on school financing. It employed a cross-sectional
survey design involving 150 teachers from 15 schools. Results revealed that there is a statistically
significant but weak relationship between the two cost-related practices and financing of private
schools. The study concluded that prevalent cost-related practices are neither adequate nor equally
effective in ensuring a steady flow of financial resources for schools, hence need for both more
enterprising alternatives and due diligence. Other recommendations for better financial resource
mobilisation and management were made.

Keywords

Entrepreneurial education management, school financing, resource mobilisation

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