Government Expenditure and Performance of Public Secondary Schools in Zanzibar

Abstract

The Vector Autoregressive and Vector Error Correction Modelling were used to examine the impact of government expenditure on the performance of public ordinary (Form II and Form IV) and advanced (Form VI) secondary level respectively from the year 1990 to 2019. The results show that increase one value in government expenditure for education (GE) lead to increase the education performance (EDP) of Form II and Form IV by 2.46 and 5.11 values respectively. A satisfactory evidence to the Form VI model shows GE have positive effect with EDP in long and short run. A one value increase in GE promotes the EDP by 4.21 and 3.16 in long and short run correspondingly. The pupil teacher ratio is negative significant with EDP of Form II and Form IV while positive in Form VI. On other hand, the pupil classroom ratio shown to have negative significant effect with EDP in Form IV while it is insignificant for Form II and Form VI. Thus, the study concluded that the more government spending in education sector could promotes the performance of education in all secondary levels. Based on the findings, the study suggests that the allocation of fund should be focused on investing in education materials like books and computers; and employing more teachers in all secondary levels as it was seen to be more efficient in education performance.