EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SECRETARIAL STUDENTS OF INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY ENUGU

ABSTRACT
The purpose for this work is to identify the effects of the provision of educational facilities to the performance of secretarial students of the Institute of Management and Technology Enugu.
The main problem being whether the Academic performance of secretarial studies are being affected by educational facilities.
The population used for the research work consist of secretarial student lecturers, non academic staff and some management staff of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT) Enugu.
The instruments used for the data collect was a questionnaire, observant and the formular for the data analysis was:
Xx  %
Y           1

Where:
X= No of response
Y= No of Respondents
%= 100
After the data analysis, the findings are as follows:
1.The Dept of Sec. Admin I. T.M Enugu needs Educational facilities to Educate their students.
2.The Dept. of Sec. Admin I.M.T Enugu does not have adequate educational facilities needed in the department.
3.The cause of these educational facilities was dye to some internal factors, inadequate funds, low management, lack of scarcity inadequate buildings/were house and lack of maintenance for the old facilities.
4.Educational facilities effects the students who have gone for their industrial training and those part-time jobs in the modern business world.
5.Efforts have been made to provide those facilities but were set back by the factors earlier mentioned above.
6.Solutions/suggestions were made by respondents to provide these facilities (launching for appeal fund, tasking those who spoil any one, employing more security and improvement of management.
7.These suggestions will be of great benefit to the secretarial students, lecturers and the management of IMT Enugu. Based on the findings, the following conclusions was made;
(i)That these facilities was indispensable to the department of secretarial studies and should be of great importance/improvement to the students as well as lecturers and management of IMT Enugu.
(ii)That institute should make provision for their students to be trained on the usage of these new facilities.
(iii)That these would enlighten the knowledge of the students when out to perform their duties especially in the more advances of the new society’s.
(iv) Finally, recommendation were made, on the research work to include training students whenever new facilities is introduced. Schools of post primary and private schools should include courses relating to these facilities.  Employment of exports to teach on the facilities will also be included for maximum result. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Pagesii
Certification iii
Approval Pageiv
Dedication v
Acknowledgementvi
Abstractvii
Table of contents x

CHAPTER ONE
1.1Introduction/Background of the Study1
1.2Statement of the Problem3
1.3Purpose of Study4
1.4Significance of the Study5
1.5Scope of the Study/Delimitation6
1.6Research Questions6

CHAPTER TWO: 
Literature Review8
Summary of Related Literature  15

CHAPTER THREE
3.0Research Methodology16
3.1Research Design16
3.2Research Instruments18
3.3Population of the Study19
3.4Sample Size19
3.5     Validity of Instruments20
3.6Data Analysis Techniques21

CHAPTER FOUR
 PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA22
4.1Position/Rank22
4.2Sex23
4.3Age23
4.4Data Analysis/Testing of Research Question.24

CHAPTER FIVE: 
Summary of findings, conclusion, recommendations and 
areas for further study33
5.1Summary of Findings33
5.2Conclusion35
5.3Recommendation36
5.4Area for Further Study37
Letter of Respondents38
Questionnaires39
Bibliography 42