Quality assurance in secondary education in Nigeria: The roles of school administrator and student leaders
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2011
Authors
Sule, S.A.
Sofoluwe, A.O.
Olatokunbo, O.C.
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University of Lagos, Akoka
Abstract
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.
Description
Conference proceedings of the 26th Congress of the Nigerian Academy of Education held at the Faculty of Education, University of Lagos, Akoka, 21st -25th November, 2011.
Keywords
Administrators , Secondary schools , Education system , Nigeria , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
Citation
Sule, S.A., Sofoluwe, A.O. and Olatokunbo, C.O. (2011). Quality assurance in secondary education in Nigeria: The roles of school administrator and student leaders. Proceedings of the 26th congress of the Nigerian Academy of Education, held at the University of Lagos, 202-207pp.