TEACHERS’ ATTRITION IN PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA: CAUSES AND THE WAY FORWARD

Obinna Nonso Anachuna, Innocent Chiawa Igbokwe, Boniface Emengini

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The seeming high teacher turnover in private secondary schools necessitated this study on teachers’ attrition in private secondary schools in Enugu State: causes and the way forward. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. One research question guided the study. The population of the study comprised 17,217 teachers in the 923 private secondary schools in Enugu State. The sample for the study comprised 391 teachers using the Taro Yamen sample size formular. A researcher’s developed questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument was validated by three experts who are lecturers, two in Educational Measurement and Evaluation, Department of Educational Foundations and the other in Educational Management and Planning, Department of Educational Management and Policy all in the Faculty of Education Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The Cronbach’s Alpha method was used to determine the internal consistency of the items which yielded an overall reliability coefficient of 0.72. The researcher with the help of ten research assistants distributed and successfully collected 368 copies of the questionnaire administered. The research question was answered using the arithmetic mean. It was found among others that non-participation of teachers in professional development programmes like conferences and seminars is one of the causes of teachers’ attrition in private secondary schools in Enugu State. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that private secondary school principals in Enugu State should sponsor and allow teachers to participate in professional development programmes with the view of curbing the high rate of teachers’ attrition.

 

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