Resources Availability And Teacher’s Productivity In Secondary School
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE]

Facility maintenance entails providing clean and safe environment for teaching and learning. It also involves provision of adequate facilities for teaching and learning. According to Asabiaka (2008) the following type of maintenance should be adopted in the facility maintenance plan. These are preventive, routine, emergency repairs, and predictive maintenance.
(i) Preventive maintenance - This is a type of maintenance carried out on school facilities to avoid breakdown and ensure optimal performance of the facility. Up to date information about the facility is required to serve as a guide for the maintenance team. Preventive maintenance saves cost and time. It is usually an integral part of the management practice in societies where maintenance culture is well established. Decisions on preventive maintenance are collectively made and implemented.
(ii) Routine maintenance- This is carried out periodically as scheduled by the school managers. Facilities may be serviced monthly, quarterly or even annually depending on the agreed schedule. Manufacturers guide provide information on the nature and maintenance intervals. School managers comply with these guides to avoid breakdown of the equipment.
(iii) Emergency Repairs- This is very common in the management of school facilities in societies where maintenance culture is not well established. It takes place when a facility breaks down and urgent measures or steps had to be taken to remedy the situation. In this regard, collective decision-making may not be possible because there may be limited time to bring together all the necessary individuals to make decisions. It is also expensive because due to lack of maintenance, the extent of damage may demand total replacement of the facility or high cost of repair. In some cases, the breakdown may cause injury or even death to staff and or students of the school. The resultant effect may be high insurance premium or prevent the use of the facility for teaching and learning until repair had been effected. School managers should proactively develop and implement facilities management plan for addressing facility needs.
(iv) Predictive Maintenance-This involves the use of computer software’s to predict equipment failure based on age, user demand and performance measures.
Resources allocation in secondary schools
Resources allocation is one of the most challenging tasks that our educational system faces, whether they are in the early stages of reform or years into sustaining improvements. To sustain improvement, schools must devote sufficient resources to fully implement priority goals before moving on to others. Knowing how to allocate resources effectively can lead to long-term accomplishment of goals rather than short-lived success. Facing the challenge of resource allocation begins with knowing the range of resources available. But knowing at one point in time is not enough; schools must periodically take stock of their resources. This means revisiting regularly whether financial, human, and time resources are allocated in the most appropriate ways to achieve school’s goals.
Okunamiri (2009) noted that educational finance critically examines all the costs and expenditure in the production of educational services which is both labour and capital intensive. Funding responsibilities during the crisis were transferred from one level of government to another, as well as to families, to help subsidize education through fee payments at secondary school and in higher education (Moja, 2010). According to CBN (2010), poor financial investment has been the bane of Nigerian education system to the extent to which the budgeting allocation has been very low compared to others. Furthermore, the federal government allocation to education has declined steadily since 1999 and is much lower than the average in the last five years of military rule. This is particularly important in view of huge increase in number of intake at all levels of education – primary, secondary and tertiary.