Abstract
The study examined the impact of public-relations and supervisory duties of school heads on the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in South-West, Nigeria. The descriptive research of the survey design was employed. Two sets of validated instruments, School Heads’ Public-Relations and Supervisory Duties Questionnaire and Implementation of Universal Basic Education Questionnaire, were used to collect data from a sample of 1,367. The population of the study consisted of 20,518 school heads and 134,030 teachers in public primary schools as well as 78,847 teachers in public Junior Secondary Schools in South-West, Nigeria. Proportionate random sampling technique was used to select 643 teachers from primary schools and 514 teachers from Junior Secondary Schools as well as 120 school heads from primary schools and 90 school heads from Junior Secondary Schools. The reliability co-efficient obtained for SHPRASDQ and UBEQ through test-retest method were 0.76 and 0.81 respectively. Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis was used to analyse the data. Two null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there was a significant relationship between public-relations duties of the school heads and the implementation of Universal Basic Education on one hand, and between supervisory duties of the school heads and the implementation of Universal Basic Education on the other hand. It was recommended that school heads should not relent in their efforts at improving the level of public-relations and supervisory duties for effective implementation of UBE. The government should also continue to lay emphasis on the public-relations and supervisory duties of school heads since they were significantly related to the implementation of Universal Basic Education.
Keywords: Public-relations duties, Supervisory duties, School heads, Implementation, Universal Basic Education
Publication Date: 2016-06-14