Inhibitors Of Administration of Quality Secondary Education: A Case Study of a Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria

This study was carried out to assess principals’ perception of inhibitors of administration of quality secondary education among public secondary schools in Biase Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria. The survey research design was adopted to carry out the study. All the thirty-eight 38 principals and Vice principals of public secondary schools constituted the population and sample of the study using the census approach.  An instrument titled: Principals’ Perception of the Inhibitors of Administration of Quality Secondary Education Questionnaire (PPIAQSEQ) was developed by the researcher. The face validity of the instrument was established by three experts in Educational Management and Measurement and Evaluation all in the University of Calabar, using Cronbach's alpha reliability, the instrument obtained an alpha coefficient of .81. Data was collected and analyzed through simple percentages. The findings of the study revealed that averagely over 70 % of the respondents either agree or strongly agree that quality of teachers, teachers’ salary, promotion pattern, availability of teachers, teacher welfare, industrial action, lack of instructional materials, delayed salary, teacher attrition, lack of libraries, lack of monthly impress, laboratories, textbooks, and lack of desk strongly inhibited administration of quality secondary education in Biase LGA of Cross River State, Nigeria. It was concluded that addressing the problem of funding will address if not completely a reasonable portion of the quality problems faced by the secondary education subsector. Consequently, it was recommended Government should ensure adequate budgetary allocation to education in line with UNESCO’s benchmark of 26% of total annual budgetary allocation to education for developing nations.