Sundry Hindrances On The Implementation Of Nigerian Education Rules And Regulations Among The Principals And Teachers In Public Secondaryschools In Ebonyi State, Nigeria
Gift S L C Nnamoko Ph.D
Department of Education Foundation, Ebonyi state University, Abakaliki
Nweze Bernardine Ngozi Ph.D
Department of Science Education, Enugu State University of science and Technology, Agbani
Keywords: Hindrances, Education Rules and Regulations, Urban and Rural, Principals and teachers
Abstract
This study was conducted to find sundry hindrances on the implementation of Nigerian Education Rules and Regulations among the principals and teachers in Ebonyi State public secondary schools. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. Population of the study consisted of 1316 principals and teachers of public secondary schools. Using Taro Yamune formula, the sample for the study was 308 respondents comprising 44 principals and 264 teachers within the three Education Zones in the state. Structured type of questionnaire were used as the instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by 2 experts from Educational Foundations department and one expert from Measurement and Evaluations and the reliability obtained using Cronbach alpha co-efficient was 0.73. A 4 point scale of Strongly Agreed, Agreed, Disagreed, and Strongly Disagreed were used. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses formulated for the study. The finding revealed that majority of the principals and teachers agreed that there were hindrances on the implementation of the Nigerian education rules and regulations. The findings also showed that majority of principals and teachers did not see the need to implement Nigerian education rules and regulations. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that the Ebonyi State government should promote their teachers based on the level of implementation of Nigerian Education Rules and Regulations by these teachers and also the government and the school administrators should make sure that whenever they are addressing the teachers, they must refer to Nigerian education rules and regulations.