ASSESSMENT OF THE POST-LICENSING STATUS OF NURSERY/PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THE AGEGE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA
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This study examined the post-licensing stature of nursery and primary schools in Lagos State. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The study population comprised nursery and primary schools in the Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State. Two research instruments were used for data collection: Nursery School Post-licensing Status Questionnaire (NPSQ) and the Nursery School Quality of Infrastructure Assessment Scale (NPSIAS). The results showed that 9.6% of the schools were licensed between 1980 and 1999; 51.8% were licensed from year 2000 and above, and 38.6% are yet to be licensed. The results also showed that 6.0% of the schools had high level of enrollment; 42.2% had moderate level of enrollment, while 51.8% had low level of enrollment. A total of 36.1% of the schools are of high quality in terms of physical infrastructure; 62.7% of the schools are of medium quality; and 1.2% of the schools are of low quality. The results also showed that 77.1% of the schools were owned by private individual when compare with 17(20.5%) of the schools owned by religious organizations, while 2.4% of the schools were owned by tertiary institutions. The study concluded that there were variations in post-licensing timeline, level of enrollment, quality infrastructure, and school owners of nursery/primary schools in the Agege local government area of Lagos State
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