PRINCIPALS’ ENFORCEMENT OF EDUCATION LAW AS KEY TO EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION IN DELTA STATE
Abstract
This paper investigated principal’s enforcement of education law as key to effective public secondary school administration in Delta State. In order to effectively carry out this investigation, two null hypotheses was formulated to guide the study. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the investigation. The population of 475 which study consists of 295 male and 180 female secondary school principals in Delta State. The sample random sampling was employed to select the size of 95 principals (40 males and 55 females) representing 20% of the total population in Secondary Schools in Delta State. The instrument for data collection was the questionnaire titled: Principals’ Enforcement of Education Law for Effective Administration Questionnaire (PEELEA). Generated data were analyzed using the t-tested statistical tool at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that numerous challenges hamper the enforcement of education law for effective secondary school administration in the state. The paper concluded that adequate attention has not being given to the enforcement of education law in secondary schools in the state. The paper recommended amongst others that the Delta State Ministry of Education should conduct seminars and workshops for all the stakeholders on the enforcement of education laws as it will adequately quip them in the discharge of their duties in the school setting
Downloads
References
Afolabi, F.O. (2014). Education laws and administration of students personnel services in secondary schools in Ondo State, Nigeria. (Unpublished Ph.D thesis), University of Ibadan.
Akukeide , (2014). The law of public education in Nigeria. Akoka; University of Lagos Press.
Amirize, T.O. (2014). Legal obligations and contractual rights of secondary school teachers in Imo State. (Unpublished Ph.D thesis), University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State.
Asure, O.S. (2014) The strategies of human resources management in Public secondary schools in Delta State. M.A. Thesis. Department of Educational Management. University of Port Harcourt.
Federal Republic of Nigeria (2013). National policy on education; Abuja; Federal Ministry of Education Press.
Koko, T.O. (2014). Education law in administration of higher institutions in Nigeria; Akoke; University of Lagos Press.
Nakpodia, E.D. (2014) Human resource management in education. In J.B. Babalola and A.O.Ayeni (Eds). Educational Management: Theories and Tasks. Lagos: Macmillan Nigeria Publishers.
Oloko, O.O. (2014). Implication of educational law in most public senior secondary schools in Ogun States; International Journal on Law and Diplomatic Studies; 5 (2) 31 -45
Oloko, O.O. (2015) Education and the Law in Nigeria:The Rights of Teachers and Students. Owerri: Kay Beecee Publications Ltd.
Oyebode, A. (2015, June). Legal issue in university management: A paper presented at the orientation workshop for newly appointed chairman and member of council of federal universities N.U.C, Abuja.
Peretomode, V.F. (2004). Education law: principals, cases and materials on schools Abuja: International University Press.
Yoloye, S.W. (2014). Law and university administration in Nigeria: Trends and issues in managing universities in Nigeria. Owerri: Spring Publishers
Copyright (c) 2023 BIOKORO, Beauty Ogharen, OBATA, Rita Obiageli & GHAVWAN, Okeoghene Ogheneruemu
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Author(s) and co-author(s) jointly and severally represent and warrant that the Article is original with the author(s) and does not infringe any copyright or violate any other right of any third parties, and that the Article has not been published elsewhere. Author(s) agree to the terms that the GPH Journal will have the full right to remove the published article on any misconduct found in the published article.
