SCHOOL PRINCIPALS’ BANKRUPTCY IN THE MICRO-POLICY OF NIGERIAN UPPER-BASIC EDUCATION

Abstract

This paper examines School principal’s Bankruptcy in micro-policy of Nigeria Upper-Basic Education. It however, strives to answer the question “which of the principal’ Academic, professional and managerial skills that one may consider bankrupt in the effective
implementation of Upper Basic Education Schools today?” The pedagogy employed for this study is multidisciplinary approach. Nevertheless, the paper utilized the theoretical frame work of Petercian theory to anchored reasons why school principals who may be academically, professionally and managerially bankrupt yet managed to find themselves on the seat of power as the principal of Upper Basic Education schools in Nigeria. The paper further lamented the role of godfatherism, ethnocentrism, ethno-religious sentimentalism and unemployment scenarios of the nation as being responsible for Bankruptcy on the part of the school principals in Nigeria upper Basic Education schools. Therefore, the paper recommended among others that the Federal Government of Nigeria should inscribe it emphatically into the National Policy on Education that the minimum qualification for upper Basic Education school principals is First Degree. Also, special training and retraining of school principals should be put into law. This will help to flush out or to propel bankrupt school administrators into further training which will in turn promote their efficiency and improve students’ academic achievements