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    Governments fund allocation and institutional functioning of public secondary schools in misungwi district, Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2020) Msuya, Stellah Joel
    This study exanibes government’s funds allocation and the institutional functioning of public secondary schools in Misungwi District. The specific objectives of the study were to examine how teaching and learning process are affected by the currect system of funds, examine how administrative functions are affected by the current system of funds allocation in secondary schools, determine the challenges associated with funds allocated in public secondary, and find out ways used by school heads to address the emerging challenges under the current system of fund allocation in secondary schools. The study used qualitative research approach and case study design whereby 61 participants were employed.these were 1 District secondary education officer, 5 school heads, 5 ward education officers ,10 teachers and 40 students who were obtained through interviews, focus group discussions and documentary review, and analysed through content analysis. The findings revealed that students had a conducive learning environment, comfortable teachers with high working morale and school examinations conducted timely. The study also established that school heads carried out administrative constraints as a challenge in paying overtime allowance to teachers. Producing utilities, facilitating teacher’s movement pay postal services administration of board meeting and inability to pay supporting staff. In order to curb emerging challenges encountered by the school heads from funds allocation modality, most of the participants identified two methods namely; funds re-allocation and alternative funding.In funds re-allocation school heads re-allocate funds basing on priority and ad-hoc activities while in alternative funding school heads received contributions from education stakeholders while parents contributed food for students. Moreover, findings indicated that school heads introduced school agricultural activities and established school managed shops where the enerated revenue were used to carry out school administrative functions. For a well-functioning school, the study recommends that there is a need for the government tp raise schools funds allocation. This will enhance efficiency on institutional functioning which will improve education standards and academic performance in schools for simplifying and hastening developments projects in public secondary secondary schools. The further studies can be conducted with similar topic using quantitative approach which captures large sample such as all public secondary schools located in districts for the purpose of making comparison using different research methods.