Benue State University, Makurdi

Parents-teachers Association (PTA) and the management of Secondary Schools in North Central Zone of Nigeria

Gabriel Mhenbee Ortsa PhD Benue State University, Makurdi,
Jacob Akaahemba Apase PhD Benue State University, Makurdi

Abstract

The paper investigated Parents Teacher Association (PTA) and the management of Secondary School Education in North Central Zone of Nigeria. The paper conceptualized Parent Teacher Association and management of secondary schools. The paper highlighted the participation of PTA in recruitment of teachers and the management of secondary schools, PTA provision of financial assistance and provision of infrastructural facilities on the development of secondary schools. The paper concluded that PTA’s recruitment of teachers, provision of financial assistance, infrastructural facilities and instructional materials have significant management of secondary schools in North Central zone and recommended among others that both federal and state governments should recruit adequate and qualified teachers in all their secondary schools, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, provide financial assistance to the principals of schools for effective and efficient management of their schools to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning process in schools.

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