PRINCIPALS ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN NSUKKA EDUCATION ZONE OF ENUGU STATE NIGERIA
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Principals, Administrative functions, Achievements, Secondary schoolAbstract
This study examined principals’ administrative functions and achievements of secondary school in Nsukka education zone of Enugu state Nigeria. The objectives of the study were to: find out the administrative achievements of male and female principals in their administrative roles basing on their management styles and determine the administrative constraints of principals of urban and rural secondary schools. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design and was carried out in Nsukka Education Zone. It made use of questionnaires as the instrument for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the research questions while t – test statistics was used to test the two null- hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The researcher discovered that the major findings are that there is gender difference in establishing discipline between male and female principals in favour of male principals; and that school location has no significant influence on administration constraints of principals in Nsukka Education zone. It was concluded that male principals do better in the area of discipline than their female counterparts and that principals of both urban and rural secondary schools in Nsukka Education Zone are constrained with finance, structure/facilities and indiscipline, thereby hindering their effective managerial abilities. It was recommended among other things that the Community or the Government should build quarters to house principals and teachers coming from outside the community in which the school is located
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