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    Career Orientation As Determined by Sex Role Concept of Men And Women
    (Journal of Women in Colleges of Education (JOWICE), 1996-09-05) Onyene, V. E.
    Gender inequity and inherent discriminations against Career Women is brought about by institutionalised bias associated with the socialisation process which helps the child (male or female) to take a stand concerning roll expectations. Data were collected using unstructure questions that allowed 124 male and female professionals respond as they freely could. Simple percentages were assigned to merge opinions. It was discovered that there is a need to start from the basic training, (from the cradle) to orientate female children towards any role or work which they have talents and potential for.
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    Evaluation of the use of modern information technology for educational planning in Lagos State
    (New century journal of education, 1998) Bello, S.A.
    This study examines the use of computer based information technology for educational planning in Lagos State. The research was carried out at two levels. Lagos State Ministry of Education and Post Primary Teaching Service Commission (PPTESCOM). The sampling techniques used were purposive and random sampling. The findings of the research suggest that awareness of modem information technology is not adequate both at the management and staff levels. However, the backgrounds of the most of the personnel favour easy computer training. The research recommends that reliable information needed for educational planning can be obtained through the adoption of relevant softwares, which should be network to allow for the easy transfer of information.
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    Financing teacher education: basic problems and challenges
    (1998) Oguntoye, A.O.; Uzoka, N.E.
    Educational finance is a major issue for debcltc at the family, government, national and intemationolieve!s. ret none cC\n c(ii)~\\D hU'\le comp)ele sotutions to the inadequacy of funding or deficiency in resorire:es allocation in respect to education. One area where reliable funding is crilciatii teacher education. This paper highlights the caHses of the financial crisis in edl~'catiol1i/l ge/l era I and the consequences ofthe~e·otl.the quality o!f.{rucatioll. It then goes 011 10 suggest ways of improving the financing of teacher education. A jOin(participation in the financing of this sub-sector of education by the studel1t,\yho is the focus of education, the government which is the sponsor oJ edllcClti'orland the private sector which uses the product of education for its services as suggested. The major.goal is to ensure sustainable source of funding to promote good quality education.
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    Demographic Factor Consideration in School Location in the Next Decade
    (Department of Educational Administration, University of Lagos, 1998-03-08) Onyene, V. E.
    The paper highlights the importance of school plant location in the management and control of education in every country. Demographic variables are reviewed extensively as making significant inputs into school plant planning and location. Maintenance of such plants is equally perceived as inevitably crucial. Suggestions about potent survey analysis that needs to be conducted before schools are located to meet the future needs of the country are also highlighted. Recommendations are made futuristic to meet the demands of the next decade through accurate data and geographic information system.
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    Effective school and individual approaches to student behaviour: an appraisal
    (National Association of Curriculum Theorists, 1999-11) Uzoka, N.E.
    All those concerned with educational matters are committed to ensuring that all students attending schools are provided with the opportunity to obtain a comprehensive, balanced and equitable education. The paper attempts La analyse the essence of meeting the needs of inclividual students, those whom teachers regard as the 'most difficult to teach' because or their behaviour, and the needs of the whole - school community. The author adopts a library research approach to the study. The study reveals that a range of interacting factors will affect student learning and behaviour. Some or these factors dwell within the students, whereas others can be traced to an inappropriate curriculum or related to conditions within the learning environment. The paper suggests that teachers and the school can dramatically affect the learning and behaviour of their young people.
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    Crisis of leadership: in quest of a curriculum for leadership education in nigeria
    (2000) Oladipo, S.A; Sule, S.A.
    Effective leadership serves as the most valuable public good needed achieve a balanced economy in any nation. It guarantees the eradicati of such challenges as bad governance, political instability, crime, sod unrest and a host of other factors. The nature, type and quality leadership determine the attainment of desired goals and aspirations any cou try (Ojo, & Ojo. 2012) Effec ive leadership, therefore, is centr to the success of organizations (Braun Nazlir, Weisweiler Pawlowsk Peus &Frev, 2009)
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    Conflict management techniques and institutional efficiency in public universities in Lagos State
    (2000) Sule, S.A.; Ita, A.A.
    The aim of the study was to determine to what extent conflict management t .chniqucs used byeducational managers and administrators in the universities inllu .ncc institutional efficiency positively. The study area was Lagos State. Three hyp theses were formulated to guide the study. Inferential statistical method was used f r the study and purposive sampling technique was used to sample 200 rend 'mic and non academic staff from the two public universities for the study. Data W 'I c collected by the use of the instrument titled "Conflict Management Techniques ind Institutional. Efficiency Questionnaire (CMTIEQ)". The instrument was a 4- pint Likert type scale and consisted of30 items. The reliability coefficient was 0.87, using the Cronbach Alpha reliability test. The hypotheses of the study were tested using the Chi-square test and Pearson Moment Product Correlation Statistics. The findings showed that conflict is inevitable in every organization, even in the institutions of higher learning like the Universities, and that it poses threats to institutional efficiency of Nigerian public Universities. Hence, the required and mostuppropriate techniques should be deployed by institutional managers to address -onflicts in order to promote peace and increase performance and institutional -fficiency, Premised on these findings, it was recommended that managers of tertiary institutions should pay more attention to conflict management in their various in titutions and organisations by deploying the appropriate conflict management I ichniques to arrest conflicts as this will provide more opportunities for innovation nnd growth within the organisations.
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    Providing quality education when resources are scarce: strategies for improving Secondary School effectiveness
    (Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning, Unilorin, 2000) Uzoka, N.E.
    Most education systems have always exercised some control over the quality of tne« output. This has tClken the form of supelVISIO/l of the output from the system. This paper atternpts to analyse the issue of quality and how to improve on the quality of education in the face of c/vvindling resources The 'author adopted a library research approach to the study. The study reveals that in addition to the issue of insufficient intellectual ability on the teecuers' otut, their understanding of assessment tasks. sources of stuaenis' errors, and strategies for IInproving them should be considered important features of instructional effectiveness. The paper suggests that monitoring programmes should be undertaken in a non-threatening contex. t and tne issue of building quality should be addressed from the outset.
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    Funding of education mosstly for emoluments? a critique
    (2000) Uzoka, N.E.
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    Dynamics of Institutional Management: Towards Strategic Administrative Competence
    (Sam Orient Publishers., 2000-01-14) Onyene, V. E.
    This book explored in an instructive manner the fundamental managerial skills and leadership behaviour. It also dwelled upon institutions as corporate entities with basic structures and systemic components. It is an enormous task to start up role and relationship harmonisation as basic organisational behaviour, but it is yet a more demanding assignment to strategically manage people at work. The book also covered those necessary skills for strategic administrative competencies.
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    Information Communication Technology (ICT), and Documentation in Tertiary Institutions
    (Emergent issues in Nigerian education, Mugzal Press, 2000-03-02) Onyene, V. E.; Mbah, P.; Madumere, S. C.
    This paper assessed the issues and relevance of electronic devices to the administration and control of tertiary institutions information details. The use of modern electronic devices, with particular attention to the computers which was explored to ascertain the extent documentation enhances organisational effectiveness. Nigeria with its teeming population of about 140 million needs to meet up with the real of the world in the face of ICT revolution. Information and documentation processes are most imperative now that technology has advanced to such a level that impact heavily on competitive business and administration. The paper takes its conceptual framework from structural principles of the Max Webers classical bureaucratisation of organisations which proposed the entrenchment of downward-upward flow of communication with copious documentation. It therefore outlined the role of ICT in the documentation of day-to-day as well as future educational operations in a tertiary setting. Observable challenges to tertiary institutions in Nigeria include that most of them face a lot of managerial crisis due absence and, or inadequacy of ICT tools; knowledge and complexities. The paper therefore proffered possible solutions to the way forward.
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    The impact of teacher information consciousness on student academic performance
    (African Journal of Educational Management, 2001) Bello, S.A.
    Communication is imperative for organizational functioning. Without adequate communication a social organization cannot junction appropriately. Like other social organization colleges and universities have dire need for effective communication: They require systematic means of collecting, organizing, and sharing information. . Effective communication is a function of high level of information consciousness. This' study set out to determine the nature and significance of teacher information consciousness and its relationship to study academic performance of schools ill the Ibadan Municipality cf Oyo State. To this end, a two-part 60 -item teacher information consciousness and student academic performance (TICSAPQ) was constructed and administered in 16 randomly selected secondary schools in Ibadan Municipality using 110 teachers. The cores from the TICSAPQ provided the data for the study. Both the standardized (Z) function and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used to' test five directional hypotheses related to the problems of the study. The result showed that there is a positive significant relationship between teacher information consciousness and student academic performance. The researcher therefore suggested that the Ibadan Municipality of Oyo State needs to develop a comprehensive personnel information that will supply teachers with information needed to get their jobs done effectively. .
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    Staff Personnel Management and Productivity in Ikeja Local Education District of Lagos state
    (Awemark Industrial Printers, 2003) Bello, S. A.
    Staff management, whether in business, industry, church or school, lies at the core of the efficiency of the organization. Indeed the entire function called' administration' may be defined as getting things done through the efforts of other people. The extent to which the school. executive is able to manage his staff determines to a large extent the degree of the efficiency and consequently the level of the productivity of the school, Nwankwo (1985). . Recruitment, that is process of enlistment of new members into a group, and through which they become part and parcel of administration of an organization, has some relationship in the productivity of an institution like the school. Selection of personnel. for the school system is one of the most critical decisions that confront the school administrators. If a bad judgement is made, the process of correction can be too long and cumbersome, particularly in the school system, where personnel are so difficult to dismiss as against the situation in private enterprises where provisions are made for summary dismissal. Ukeje (1992) states that the recruitment and retention of competent people in the teaching profession is a perennial problem all over the world the further stressed that education anywhere has to attract high calibre of teaching personnel so as to improve its quality and productivity. , The focus of this study therefore is to etermine the productivity of school administration vis-a-vis the style of recruitment adopted by the government agency charged with the responsibility of employing the teaching personnel. 244 COl/temporary Issues ill Educational Management: Book of Honour; 2003 This study is very significant in the sense that the findings of the study will enable the Ikeja Local Education District of Lagos State set a very strong and productive standard in the recruitment, selection and placement of teachers.
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    Problems and prospects of computer education in Lagos State Secondary Schools
    (Journal of Educational Thoughts, 2004) Bello, S.A.
    This paper examined the problems and prospects of computer education in Lagos State Secondary Schools. Sample schools were drawn from some selected Local Education Districts. Five hypotheses were developed 10 test the availability of computer-trained personnel, utilisation of computer system in schools and the importance attached to Computer Studies. The main instrument used was a questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using Chi-squared statistics. The result of the study revealed that the Lagos State Secondary Schools are yet to implement the new policy on computer education due to lack of computer set and qualified manpower to handle the system. The study suggested that government should ensure that all schools commence computer studies immediately.
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    Issues in the Administrative Behaviour of School Headteachers
    (Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2004-06-06) Onyene, V. E.
    Management and control are essential ingredients for the attainment of organisational goals, especially in the Nigerian educational system. With increased need for deregulated school system, private school administrative success or failure has come to be of great concern. This paper is a conceptual framework bordering painfully on management crisis, which is fast eroding the operation of and of course interest in private school establishment. It notes that private schools rise and fall due to two major factors of either total lack of administrative competence on the part of untrained head teachers or ignorance on the part of the proprietors who double as owner manager with short time profit-making motives. Fundamental administrative behaviour challenges are extensively discussed in this paper in a manner expected to enhance functional engagement of incumbents. There is need for head teachers to possess the right type of skills, knowledge, mastery and multiple relational styles as facilities for efficient harnessing of resources for optimal results. Thus, the paper insists that intellectual capacity, benchmarking and informational skills, group decision-making, time and task organisation, policy and programme mix, conducive interpersonal relationships as well as flexible innovative competence are required to cope with dynamics of Nigerian service environment, with the schools as the most sensitive organization. The application of the A.E.I.O.U. model is illustrated and recommended for staff involvement in running private schools.
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    Evaluation of Job Involvement Potency of Male and Female Managers in Education: Implications for Balancing Gender Gap in Employment
    (The Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, 2004-06-12) Onyene, V. E.
    This study investigated if any difference exists in the job involvement of men and women who are in the headship of Nigeria tertiary institutions. The essence of the study is to assert or disregard discriminatory practices of not having an equitable number of women at the helm of affairs in the educational system. Data were collected from 132 education managers (83 men and 49 women) at the top echelon of tertiary institution headship, using the Job Involvement (Self) instrument designed by Lodahl and Kejner (1965). Data were analyzed using student t-test, and regression statistics. Result showed among others that the tested men and women differ in their job commitment and that the variations of difference are predicted by variables other than gender, such as, age educational qualification and work experience. It is recommended that women who are into teaching or stereotype job areas should be given opportunity to head decision-making areas in education in order to achieve internal system efficiency and to sustain the standard of education.
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    Education production functions and their implication for educational policy in Nigeria
    (Department of Educational Administration, University of Lagos, Akoka, 2005) Uzoka, N.E.
    This paper focused on the production function. The study attempted to examine how the relationship between resource inputs and outputs are mediated by internal process and also ascertained IlOlI' much each input variable contributes to the output measure either alone or interacting with other inputs. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. One hJ:)othesis was [ormul ated to guide the investigation. The sample for the study consisted 32 out of the 349 secondary schools in Lagos State. The subjects were stratified and randomly selected. The statistical technique used was Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The result of the data analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between the inputs variables' contribution either alone or interacting with each other and the output measure. The study concluded by recommending that policy makers and administrators should be 1110re specific 011 what COll/IIS as inputs and outcomes and they should be aware of the idea that inputs I'W)' ill their prices. as a result, the decision making rule is to allocate resources ill sucli a way that equality exist among the ratios of each inputs marginal productivity and price.
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    Education production functions and their implication for educational policy in Nigeria
    (Department of Educational Administration, University of Lagos, Akoka, 2005) Uzoka, N.E.
    This paper focused on the production function. The study attempted to examine how the relationship between resource inputs and outputs are mediated by internal process and also ascertained IlOlI' much each input variable contributes to the output measure either alone or interacting with other inputs. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. One hJ:)othesis was [ormul ated to guide the investigation. The sample for the study consisted 32 out of the 349 secondary schools in Lagos State. The subjects were stratified and randomly selected. The statistical technique used was Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The result of the data analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between the inputs variables' contribution either alone or interacting with each other and the output measure. The study concluded by recommending that policy makers and administrators should be 1110re specific 011 what COll/IIS as inputs and outcomes and they should be aware of the idea that inputs I'W)' ill their prices. as a result, the decision making rule is to allocate resources ill sucli a way that equality exist among the ratios of each inputs marginal productivity and price.
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    Physical facilities in Nigerian universities: implications for repositioning the institutions for global competition
    (Triumph Providential Publishers, Oyo State., 2005) Fabiyi, A.I.; Uzoka, N.E.
    The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights observed that " ... everyone has the right to education and higher education shall equally .bejnade accessible to al! on the.basis of merit (Kaplan.ZfOo). The Federal Government, recognizing.the roleof.universities in theproduction of high le~,f11.h~rnaI? resources for the labour .market, planned for. equiryin access: bility by, requesting the Joint Adrnissions and Matriculation ~oard (JAMB) to.provide opportunities for eligible Nigerians and la diversify the intake according to . .nutional spread in the placement of cElTIdicta.t'esI.t was expected that plaeemenr .j would be on .the basis of merit, catchment.area .and .the eGiu,cliponp,]·Je.ss , advantages states
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    Evaluation of Interactive Behaviour of Private School Administrators: Determining Entrepreneurship for the Millennium
    (Department of Educational Administration, University of Lagos, 2005-06-12) Onyene, V. E.
    The human dimension to school administration is receiving pre-eminent consideration in recent times, especially with increasing investment interests in this crucial area by modern male and female administrators. Moreover, private initiatives have also been acknowledged as the most effective process for shedding the load of educational provision. This study examines relational behaviour of forty-four private school managers operating within Lagos metropolis. The aim of the study is to analyse the correlates of head-teachers' initiative behaviour as they go about their administrative staffing function in these cost-intensive investment entities called private schools. Data was collected from those forty-four private school administrators from Mainland and Shomolu local councils of Lagos State. The major findings revealed among others that most head-teachers still have problems of 'relating' with their staff. For example the check-list shows a range statistic of only two of ten variables depicting consistently exhibited behaviour above fifty per cent (a little above average). Again, while some subordinates interacted freely with head-teachers who share their personal problems more our-going and officially blunt, there still exist critical cases where most head-teachers are inconsistent in their "sharing, vulnerability and openness" behaviour. Although, human or interpersonal skills of school administrators are most essential to the attainment of both internal efficiency and goal attainment motives, oral interview shows that some of them are unfortunately lacking in such areas.