Parents\' Preferred Locus of Responsibility for Funding Secondary

The purpose of this study was to find out from parents whom they expect to bear the cost of secondary education in Ghana. The study was designed to test four models that are used in the sociological literature to explain parents' behaviour regarding the education of their children. A pen-and-paper questionnaire was used to collect the data from a random sample of 509 subjects from a Ghanaian administrative district. The results of the data analysis showed that the preferred locus of responsibility for funding secondary education was both parents and government. The results showed further that the ‘vested- interest' and the ‘group identification' models seemed to explain the preferences of the subjects in this study. Keywords : Education Funding; Vested- Interest; Group Identification. International Journal of Educational Research Vol. 4 (1) 2008: pp. 27-36