| dc.description.abstract | Effective governance promotes educational standards leading to efficiency in service
delivery. Improved governance has been known for reducing mismanagement,
demonizing corruption and ultimately improving overall efficiency in offering
educational services. This study sought to investigate the influence of tea factories’
governance practices on education development in Kisii County as guided by the
following specific objectives: To examine sponsorship procedures on education
development by tea factories in Kisii County, to establish the extent to which tea factories
influence provision of facilities towards education development in Kisii County, to
examine the influence of promoting co-curricular activities on education development in
Kisii County and to assess the influence of training education stakeholders on education
development in Kisii County. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and targeted
employees of the tea factories estimated at 414. A sample of 124 respondents was
selected using stratified random sampling based on various departments within the tea
factories. This research relied on primary data which was collected using a semistructured
questionnaire which contained open ended and close ended questions. Both
descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data. The study findings
revealed that majority of the respondents agreed that tea factories in Kisii County
financed their employees to advance their studies. However, financing of students who
were not employees of the tea factories was to a moderate extent. The findings further
revealed that tea factories participated in construction of roads for easy access to
institutions of learning to great extent. Majority of the respondents were of the opinion
that factories participated in sponsorship of games in terms of trophies and cash rewards.
However they did not participate in price giving events. Finally, the findings revealed
that tea factories carried training on planting tea seedlings for farmers to a great extent.
They also partnered with schools to mainstream agricultural issues into their curriculum.
Based on the study findings it was concluded that sponsorship, provision of facilities,
promotion of co-curricular activities and training of education stakeholders respectively
influenced education development in Kisii County. Based on the research findings the
following recommendations are given: Management of tea factories to increase
scholarship funding for bright and needy students, partner with other like-minded
institutions in construction and repair of facilities; management of tea factories to
consider providing laboratory equipment and increase sponsorship of training for various educational stakeholders | en_US |
