Management Challenges Facing School Administrators and Pupils’ Academic Performance in Public Primary Schools in Sengerema District Mwanza, Tanzania

Andrew Charles,Demetria Gerold Mkulu

doi:10.22161/jhed.2.3.5

Abstract

The study sought to establish the management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools. The study was guided by the following objectives; to identify management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools, to find out how management challenges affect pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools, to determine the possible measures to curb management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools. A sample of ten public primary schools from a population of ninety-eight schools was selected for the study. The participants were teachers, school committee chairpersons, ward educational officers, district educational officer, and district school quality assurance. The data gathering was done through the use of questionnaires and interview guide. The findings revealed that there were management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary school which included insufficient budget, poor cooperation with education stakeholders, over- enrollments of pupils, shortage of infrastructure, lack of teaching/learning resources and shortage of teachers. The identified challenges had negatively affected the schools' and pupils' academic performances because it has lead to pupils’ absenteeism in schools. To curb these challenges educational stakeholders had to invest more in education by establishing different income-generating activities in school. The researcher concludes that educational stakeholders could help in building school infrastructures and finally recommended that, the government should allocate more funds to schools, employ more teachers and school administrators should cooperate with all educational stakeholders in curbing management challenges.

Highlights

This research examined the management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools in Sengerema District MwanzaTanzania
From the findings in figure 4.3, 54.4 percent of the respondents illustrated that parents had been involved in the construction of school infrastructure, while 44.4 percent of the respondents reported that parents had been involved in curbing management challenges through participating in meetings of solving educational issues held in schools. 1.1 percent of the respondents indicated that the parents had been involved in curbing management challenges by contributing money or kind in schools
The study investigated on the management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools in Sengerema district Mwanza region-Tanzania

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Introduction

This research examined the management challenges facing school administrators and pupils’ academic performance in public primary schools in Sengerema District MwanzaTanzania. Among the https://theshillonga.com/index.php/jhed administrative duties of school administrators were determining the vision of the academic achievement of students, generating atmosphere friendly to education, improving teaching, managing information and supervising people. This was because the school goals and objectives could be achieved if members of the school were working together as a team. Management challenges such as over enrollments, high teaching loads, financial constraints, shortage of instructional materials, inadequate physical facilities and shortage of teachers have been interrupting effective administrations of public primary schools. The study findings demonstrated that there was vandalism, theft, destructions of property, failure in the school, poor study accomplishment, lack of educational facilities such as equipment and technology, the physical environment and the violence against teachers and students, all these threatened the whole educational process which led to management challenges in schools

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