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Principals’ Management Skills for Generating and Utilizing Internal Revenue for the Administration of Public Secondary Schools in Cross River State

This study examined principals’ management skills on how revenue is generated and utilized internally for the administration of public secondary schools in Cross River State. Design of the study was descriptive survey. The population comprised all the 504 public secondary schools principals distributed over the 18 Local Government Areas in Cross Rivers State. The sample size was 481 principals. Two research questions and two hypotheses were answered and tested in the study respectively. Instrument for data collection was a 20-item self-structured questionnaire titled “Internal Revenue for School Administration Questionnaire” (IRSAQ) which was validated by three experts from Measurement and Evaluation in the Department of Psychology, Guidance and Counseling, University of Port Harcourt. Split half statistic associated with Spearman Brown prophecy formula was used to determine the reliability of the instrument which yielded a co-efficient of 0.89. Mean, standard deviation and rank order were used to answer the research questions while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study showed that revenues generated were utilized for different administrative needs such as provision of facilities, maintenance and day-to-day running of the school. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that principals should be trained specifically in the area of revenue generation skills.