Assessment of Admission Exercise and Political Interference at Secondary School Level of Education in Kebbi State

The paper Assessment of Admission Exercise and Political interference at secondary school level of Education: A case Study of Kebbi State, with one objective of the study as to examine the  Admission Exercise and Political interference at secondary school level of Education  in Kebbi State, and a research question as to how does political interference affect the students’ admission exercise in government secondary schools in Kebbi State? as well a single null hypothesis was formulated to know whether there is difference in the opinion of the respondent and the title of the research.  A case study survey research design was adopted for the study, being descriptive in nature, with a population of the study consists of 5177comprising all government secondary schools education stakeholders in Kebbi State during the 20/20 academic session, a sample size of 376 stakeholders was used,  which comprises of(18 principals, 327 teachers, 10 school based management committee members and 10 quality assurance officials), five points Likert questionnaire titled Assessment of Admission Exercise and Political Interference at Secondary School Level of education (AAPISSLE) was used as an instrument or collection of data collection, a reliability test of the instrument was conducted coefficient of 0.81 was obtained using Cronbach alpha reliability test.84,data was analysed using descriptive statistics such as frequency count, percentages, mean scores, tables and charts. ANOVA was used to test hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance for the study. At the end findings revealed that there is political interference in education in the admission exercise of government secondary schools in Kebbi State, it was concluded that politics interfere into educational system of the state, a recommendation was made that government should give the state ministry of education free hand to exercise its official mandate according to the law.