Educational Management- Conference Papers

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    Quality assurance in secondary education in Nigeria: The roles of school administrator and student leaders
    (University of Lagos, Akoka, 2011) Sule, S.A.; Sofoluwe, A.O.; Olatokunbo, O.C.
    The paper critically examined the roles of secondary school administrator and student leaders in assuring quality in secondary school education system. No country is likely to go far beyond the threshold of development unless it ensures that most of its people receive a good basic education. And reaching the threshold for sustainable development requires that the majority of the population completes primary and secondary education of good quality. At moment, secondary education in Nigeria is in a mess. This accounts why 1110Stparents patronize private secondary schools nowadays. The paper discussed extensively the roles of administrators and school leaders in hringing about quality in the school system. Some of these roles include; the student leaders must ensure that regular dialogue is held with the school management on how to guarantee quality instructional delivery in the school system, organi:e the entire students on the need to take their studies seriously, work in collaboration with the qualify assurance department or committee to ensure that quality services are provided in the school system, there is need to improve or employ modern teaching methods and techniques in the classroom, there is need to harmonize the internal and external criteria of quality 'assurance raising standard of excellence of the education system, effective supervisory system should be injected into the system by the school principal, etc.