A Comparative Analysis Of Personnel Management Practices In Public And Private Secondary Schools
[A CASE STUDY OF AKINYELE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA]

Concept of Public and Private Secondary Schools.
Public and private schools are schools owned as the names denote. Public schools are those schools which are owned, managed, controlled, financed and supervised by the state government through the state ministry of education and post primary school management board. Public school is the heart of the nation’s life in democracy. It remains the only hope, the only school empowered by the government to make available to everyone in the country. The only school that demonstrates commitment to equality by providing equal educational opportunity to the community, inculcation of the civic values of tolerance, equality, liberty and democracy is best provided by the public schools. The school intended to afford children from all works of life equal opportunity and shared experiences.  The public schools in Nigeria have Federal, State and Local Governments as their proprietors while private schools have individuals, associations as their owners. Public schools are backbone of any society, the symptoms of a healthy economy and country is its public education. Public schools build a public trust and interested in the characteristics of individual student and their certain situations. The concept of public and private may also vary depending on different education systems. Public schools are those which are owned, managed and financed by the state. Public schools have a uniform curriculum district-wide, however the public may suffer from funding issues that private schools do not have.In Nigerian contents, the public secondary schools include government and community schools both of which they receive full government funding for the current cost (some of which they are defrayed through the collection of school fees and boarding fees). The only difference between them pertains to the funding of school construction costs: for government schools, such costs are borne by the government and the local communities. Public schools refers to those schools in which government have centralized, control, standardised attendance and admissions, set curriculum and programs, mandatory teacher certification, and the goal of standardized outcomes of school in the interest of equity.
In the past, private secondary schools were poorly funded being of very poor standard in some cases of six-year instead of five year duration. The name private secondary school today applies to all secondary schools owned by cooperate bodies, religious organisation and individuals. Private schools also known as independent schools or non-governmental schools. These schools are not administered by local, state or national government, thus they retain the right to select their students and funded in whole or in parts by charging their students tuition rather than relying on mandatory taxation through public or government. The private school is a school which is not supported financially by the government and parents have to pay for their children to go to the school. Tuition at private secondary school varies from school to school and depends on many factors including the location of the school, willingness of parents to pay, peer tuitions and the school’s financial endowment. Private tuition schools claim, to pay higher salary for the best teachers and also use to provide enriched learning environment including small class size and services such as science laboratories, libraries, and computers. Private schools must generate their own funding which typically comes from a variety of sources: tuition, private grants, fund rising from parents, alumni, and other community members. Private schools do not receive tax revenues so they do not have to follow the sorts of regulations and bureaucratic process that government public schools follow. This allows many private schools to highly specialised and using advanced curriculum.The private sector in Nigeria comprises a great diversity of schools, whose unifying feature is that they all depend almost exclusively on school fees and private contributions to defray both the recurrent and capital costs.
Education is the mechanism by means of which a society generates the knowledge and skills required for its own survival and sustenance and which it transmits to future generations through the process of instruction to its youths. The decentralization of educational administration and management is in response to the National Policy on Education(NPE) guidelines which contains the institutional responsibilities on the different sectors charged with the functioning of educational system. The success of education is hanged on the proper planning, efficient administration and adequate financing. Administration includes organising and structure, proprietorship and control, inspection and supervision. The experience over the years is that public educational institutions in Nigeria have been poorly managed and administered in terms of poor funding and low morale of teachers.