Board of management members' views about their roles in enhancing the quality of education in primary schools - Busia County, Kenya
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Date
2016-06
Authors
Anyang, Osinya Linet
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the Board of Management Members' on
their roles in enhancing the quality of education in Teso North Sub-County, Busia
County. The specific objectives were to; examine the views of board of management
member's opinions about their roles in enhancing quality teaching and learning,
analyze the views of Board of Management of human resources, assess the opinions
of board of management members about their roles in management of financial
resources. The study utilized a descriptive research design. Data were gathered in
selected public primary schools in three educational zones, Amagoro, Angurai and
Kolanya. There were 106 public primary schools in the three zones that formed the
population of the study thus leading to utilization of different technique based on the
three educational zones (strata). Second stage of sampling utilized purposive
sampling in which 32 schools were selected. Four respondents were selected from
each of the sampled schools and 3 educational officials were used leading to a total
of 131 respondents. Data for the study was collected using questionnaires and were
analyzed using SPSS vs. 20 and Excel Worksheets. Analyses were done for
frequency distributions, means, modes and standard deviations. The major findings
of this study were that boards of Management members are key to enhancing the
quality of education in public primary schools. Board of management activities such
as supervision of teachers, supervision of curriculum implementation and provision
of teaching and learning resources, infrastructural development, promotion and
facilitating of co-curriculum activities, creation of conducive and secured teaching
and learning environment, facilitation of capacity building for human resource and
improving safety of resources were key in enhancing the quality of education in
public primary schools. Secondly, the study found that Board of Management roles
were the most important followed by human study concluded that the Board of
Management s key in discharging its duties in enhancing the quality of teaching and
learning in public primary schools in Teso north sub-county. This study concluded
that the provision of administrative roles such as supervision of teaching methods
and system, infrastructural development, provisions and ensuring the security of
learning and teaching materials were key in enhancing access to quality education.
"The study recommended that the government should undertake training of BoM
members of their roles. There should be concerted efforts by all members in public
primary schools to offer support financially, physically and morally to BoM
members and there is the need to delegate some duties such as capacity building and
motivation of teachers from the central government to board of management
members.
Description
A research project submitted to the department of educational management, policy and curriculum studies in partial fulfilmment for the award of a Master of Education Degree
Kenyatta University. June, 2016