Browsing by Author "Adam Ishola Mustapha"

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    EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD
    (Kwasu International Journal of Educational Management and Leadership (KIJEMAL), 2025) Adam Ishola Mustapha; Joy Eneka Okedare; ADEJUMON MARYAM ADEBISI; DAUDA, Rafat Bukola
    Education is a lifelong process that helps individuals to acquire the basic knowledge, skills, and values needed to become functional members of the society. Thus, it becomes imperative that a nations education is not toiled with but instead be properly managed by professional managers who are vested with the appropriate knowledge to adequately execute planned educational policies and programmes. However, In Nigeria, educational management faces numerous challenges that affect the overall quality of education. Thus, this paper examines educational management in Nigeria: challenges and way forward. The concepts of education, management and educational management were looked into. Also, the roles of educational management were examined. The challenges of the efficacy of educational management were equally elucidated among which are: poor funding, inequality in resource distribution, political consideration in management selection and inadequate professional development programme among others. The paper concludes that educational management is a necessity for the advancement of educational programmes in Nigeria. The paper suggests among other that stakeholders in education should support timely and affordable professional training and retraining programmes for education managers at all levels of education, educational managers should be recruited into educational institutions and agencies and appointed to handle educational programmes by merit rather than connection. Also, there is needs to re-evaluate, re-position the management of educational system n both government and non-government institutions across Nigeria to address to enhance the efficacy of the system.
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    Principals’ Motivational Strategies as Correlate of Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Ogbomoso Metropolis, Oyo State
    (Faculty of humanity, University of Ibadan, 2026-05-08) Adam Ishola Mustapha
    This study examines motivational strategies employed by principals’ as correlates of teachers’ job satisfaction in public senior secondary schools in Ogbomoso Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design of the correlational type was adopted. The population comprised 1,405 teachers across 49 schools, from which a sample of 336 teachers was selected using a multistage sampling procedure. Data were collected using a validated instrument titled Principals’ Motivational Strategies (PMSQ) and Teachers’ Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (TJSQ) given reliability coefficients of 0.73 to 0.85 for principals’ motivational strategies and teachers’ job satisfaction respectively. Likert 4 Scale of Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Strongly Disagree (SD) and Disagree (D) were employed. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Correlation were used for data analysis at a 0.05 significance level. Findings revealed that principals commonly employ motivational strategies such as promotion, recognition, professional development and conducive work environments, all of which recorded mean scores above the accepted benchmark. Furthermore, significant positive relationships were found between promotion (r = 0.48), recognition (r = 0.54), and work environment (r = 0.62) and teachers’ job satisfaction. Among these, work environment exhibited the strongest influence. The study concluded that principals’ motivational techniques significantly enhance teachers’ job satisfaction, thereby improving commitment, instructional quality, and overall school effectiveness. It recommended the implementation of fair promotion systems, structured recognition practices, improved working conditions, and continuous leadership training for principals to strengthen teacher motivation and retention