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    Determinants of quality education provided at secondary school level: The case of Songea Municipal Council
    (Mzumbe University, 2015) Mwanga, Elly
    The aim of this study was to assess the determinants of quality of education at secondary school level: A case study of Songea Municipal Council. Mainly the study aimed to assess the influence of various determinants of education inputs in secondary schools and the consequent intended education outputs. The study started by assessing various education input factors including, School factors, Student factors and Government factors. The study involved a sample of 223 respondents who were students and 80 teachers from 8 different schools and all respondents returned back their questionnaires. Data were analyzed by using descript statistics by the aid of SPSS and Microsoft excel. The findings indicated that, most of the students still are not aware of the concept of education quality. The findings also indicated that at students factors most of students lack passion to study, distance to school. At school based factors infrastructures especially fittings in most of the schools seem to be a very big challenge. Other challenges are poor teachers to student ratio, poor teachers‟ professional qualifications, inadequacy of learning materials, and to some extent shortage of students‟ accommodation at schools. For the case of the government factor it was revealed that, congruence of the text books was a problem, teachers are not satisfied with their job and language of instruction was problems that require attention and most respondents suggested to use Kiswahili as language of instructions at school. The conclusion showed that among the factors infrastructures is the most challenges which affect the quality of education at secondary school level.