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Purpose: The study examined whether education should be free or not among the public secondary school teachers in Ogun State in Nigeria. The study examined the status of the secondary schools in terms of funding available to public secondary schools in Ogun State. Methodology: The study applied Structural Functionalist theory and adopted qualitative method of data collection. Five (5) Key Informant Interviews (KII) and In-depth Interviews (IDI) were conducted respectively for both the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) union in Ogun State. Result was analysed and transcribed via qualitative content analysis Findings: Findings revealed that teacher performance was not encouraging due to poor motivating factors; running of free education was more problematic and cumbersome due to inadequate funding by the government. Conclusion: The study recommended that Government need to abolish the free running of education and if not opt in or re-introduce the Parent Teacher Association (PTA levy) to the public secondary school as this will screen out unserious students who constitutes the student population in various schools across the state

Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the dimensions and components of human capital in the Iranian education system in order to provide a model for it. Methodology: The present study was applied research in terms of purpose and mixed (qualitative/quantitative) research in terms of implementation method. In the qualitative section, the participants included 15 university experts from Zanjan in the academic year 2019-20, selected by purposive sampling. In the next part of the study, the statistical population consisted of 1029 high school principals in Zanjan in the academic year 2019-20. The sample size was determined 292 principals based on Morgan table and was selected by simple random sampling. Data were collected through a questionnaire obtained based on qualitative findings, the validity of which was confirmed by professors and the reliability of which was calculated to be 0.81 through Cronbach's alpha test. To analyze the data in the qualitative part, the researchers used the thematic analysis method, the validity of which was confirmed by experts and the reliability of which was obtained as the coding agreement coefficient (0.86). To analyze the quantitative part, the researchers used content analysis method and confirmatory factor analysis and structural modeling with Amos24 for the quantitative part analysis. Findings: The results demonstrated that HC had 5 dimensions and 20 components, namely skill (5 components), knowledge (4 components), ethics (4 components), mental health (4 components) and sociocultural (3 components), as well as 70 indicators (P <0/05). The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the measurement models have a good fit. The RMSEA value was less than 0/08, the GFI, AGFI and NFI values were greater than 0.9 and the indices (PNFI and PCFI) were greater than 0/5 The results of structural equations also showed that all dimensions had a direct and positive effect on human capital (P <0/05). Conclusion: Planners and practitioners of the education system can use the results of this research at two levels of study time of human resources in universities, especially Farhangian University for the growth and excellence of human capital and during service to maintain them in the education system.