Impact of Boko Haram Insurgency on Educational Performance Indicators in Senior Secondary Schools in Borno State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study assessed Impact of Boko Haram Insurgency on Educational Performance Indicators in Senior Secondary Schools in Borno State, Nigeria. Its determined impact of Boko Haram insurgency on students’ enrolment rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency on students’ attendance rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency on students’ dropout rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency and students’ completion rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency in senior secondary schools in Borno State, Nigeria. Ex post facto research design was used. The population of the study were all the sixty three (63) affected senior secondary schools in Borno State, Nigeria. Disproportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to sample forty eight (48) schools to collect data. Observation, and proforma were used to collect data for the study. The data collected were analysed using t-test of paired sample. The study found that there was a significant difference in students’ net and gross enrolment rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency in senior secondary schools in Borno State, and the difference was in favour of insurgency period. There was a significant difference in students’ attendance rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency in the year 2005 and 2011, 2007 and 2013 and total before and during and not in the year 2006 and 2012, 2008 and 2014 in senior secondary schools in Borno State, and difference was in favour of insurgency period. There was a significant difference in students’ dropout rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency in the year 2007 and 2013, and total before and during and not in 2005 and 2011, 2006 and 2012, and 2018 and 2014, in senior secondary schools in Borno State, and the difference was in favour of insurgency period and there was a significant difference in students’ completion rate before and during Boko Haram insurgency in senior secondary schools in Borno State, and the difference was in favour of pre insurgency period for the first year and insurgency period for the remaining years. Based on the findings of the study, it is concluded that there was a positive impact of insurgency on students’ net and gross enrolment rate, and completion rate in senior secondary schools in Borno State. It is also concluded that there was inconsistency in the impact of Boko Haram insurgency on students’ attendance rate and dropout rate in senior secondary schools in Borno State. The study recommended among others that Borno State Government should provide free education up to secondary school as the study shows that students ‘net and gross enrolment rate in favour of insurgency period. Federal and Borno State Government should deploy security agents to provide protection to schools to avoid future attacks as the finding indicates that the students dropout rate increased during the insurgency period despite inconsistency in results, and most schools outside the Maiduguri Metropolis were destroyed and the Federal and Borno State Government should provide scholarship for continuous education as the study shows that students completion rate favour of insurgency period and most of their parents were internally displaced. Keywords: Boko- Haram insurgency, net and gross enrolment rate, attendance rate, dropout rate, and completion rate