Accountability and promotion of education service in primary schools in Kole District: a case study of Ayer Sub - County
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2012-09
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Kampala International University; College of Education Open and Distance Learning
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This work consists of effects of accountability and promotion of education service in Kole district. Accountability is a process whereby one is required to justify his or her actions. This involves giving evidence that resources provided have been put to good use. And on this context, it must be seen from the promotion of education service when these resources entrusted to people facilitate learning.
A school has a person(s) entrusted with the responsibility of receiving human resource, finances and physical assets, putting them into use, overseeing the use and supervising their operations and activities. When meeting this responsibility, the human resource managers have authority to get evidence so that those being supervised are properly and efficiently utilizing the resources to promote academic performance. Therefore supervisors require those below them to account for their activities. For instance a head teacher expects accountability from the teachers, in turn the school management committee or community and the DEO expect accountability from the head teacher and the CAO expects accountability from the DEO • Kole district being a new district which has taken only two years now have been trying to initiate total accountability to enable the promotion of education service in primary schools but the initiative has far not been subsequent.
The study is reported in subsequent chapters. The study was guided by three independent variables on accountability namely; Human resource, Financial management and physical against three dependent variables on education service as; staff welfare, budgeting, quality and quantity of the service. The study was set to answer three research questions formulated by the researcher. These included; how does Human resource affect education service in primary schools in Kole District?
How does financial management affect education service in primary schools in Kole District? To what extend does the physical accountability affect education service in primary schools in Kole District? In answering these stated research questions, the researcher used one hundred (I 00) respondents drawn from four (4) District Officials, eight head teachers (8), twenty eight (28) members of school Management Committee, another twenty eight (28) teachers from the eight sampled primary schools and thirty six (36) pupils from these same schools. The respondents were sampled using purposive and simple random sampling to participate in the raw data collection. The investigator used three (3) sets of self-administered questionnaires and an interview schedule. Since the study had been a descriptive, the researcher analyzed data and quantified them in percentages which made comparison realistic and very easy to understand. The result indicated that; The Human resource had the following contributions that attributed poor academic performance in Kole District. Among them were; teaching staff dodging lessons, inadequate teaching learning materials, unfrequented refresher some, teachers absenteeism, low level of NGOs involvement in education, negative attitudes of some stakeholders on education and lack of delegation of duties to staff by some head teachers• On the financial management, the study revealed that there were low level of SMC PTA in monitoring finance utilization, mismru1agement of finance resources, low level of financial managerial skills by human resource, audit done at the district headquarters and human resource managers failed to follow the set budget. The findings also showed that the physical accountability failed to promote education service in Kole District due to lack of enough TIL materials, shortage of staff houses at school, disputes in most schools and inadequate furniture delivered to primary schools
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A research project submitted to the College of Education Open and Distance Education Department as a partial fulfillment for the Award of a Bachelor's Degree in Education of Kampala International University.
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Accountability and Promotion, Education Service