Managing National Social Investment Programmes for Economic Sustainability and Educational Development in Rivers State, Nigeria

The study investigated managing national social investment programmes and economic sustainability in education in Rivers State, Nigeria. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlation design with a population of 313 principals in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The sample consisted all the 313 principals using census sampling technique. The instruments for data collection are Managing National Social Investment Programmes Questionnaire and Economic Sustainability in Education Questionnaire. The reliability was determined using Cronbach Method. The following reliability indexes are: .83 for Managing National Social Investment Programmes and .86 for Economic Sustainability in Education accordingly. Out of 313 copies of questionnaire administered, 304 were properly filled and retrieved which represented 96% success rate. The research questions were answered using simple regression while the hypotheses were tested using t-test associated with simple regression at 0.05 level of significant. The findings among others revealed that national cash transfer programme predicted economic sustainability by 22.9% and there is a significant prediction between national cash transfer programme and economic sustainability in education in Rivers State. The study concluded that all the components of managing national social investment programmes which are considered in this study has a positive prediction to economic sustainability in education in Rivers State with different determinism.