EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES PROVISION IN A CHANGING WORLD FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN LAGOS STATE

Abstract

This study examined educational facilities provision in a changing world for sustainable
development in public secondary schools in Lagos State. Specifically, the study set out to
examine the level of teachers training on the use of technologies in sustaining educational
development in public secondary schools among others. three research questions and two
research hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. This study adopted a descriptive survey
research design and the population comprised 8,840 teachers in public senior secondary schools
of Lagos State. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 320 participants for the study.
An instrumen titled ”Educational Facilities Provision and Sustainable Development
Questionnaire” was used for data collection, and was validated with its reliability ascertained.
The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Some of the findings
showed that inadequate staff training on the use of ICT and e-resources in sustaining
educational development and poor funding by government to procure digital tools in schools.
The study thus recommended that ministry of education through teacher service commission
should as a matter of urgency embark on provision of training, workshops and seminars in
digital tools appreciation to secondary school teachers to enable them acquire necessary digital
literacy skills, the government should procure computers, software kits and install multimedia
in schools.