Supervision and Inspection: A Tool for Effective School System in Nigeria

The topic under discourse “Supervision and Inspection: A tool for effective school system” aimed at revealing the place of supervision and inspection in ensuring effective school system in Nigeria. It is obvious that, supervision and inspections are seen as a veritable tool or instrument that must be put in place by the school management or any agency or ministries that are in charge of educational sector, such as ministries of education, post primary school’s board and universal basic education board as in case of Rivers State. The paper x-rays the meaning of the concept of School system, supervision and inspections. Evidence shows that school system in Nigeria is decaying especially in Rivers State due to the fact that the area of Ideal supervision and inspection is ignored and the caliber of people doing the job are majorly inexperience and sometime politicized and used to witch hunt. The paper went further to elucidate the importance of supervision and inspections, types of supervision and inspection, challenges and prospects of supervision and inspection. Finally the paper made some conclusions and suggestions regarding the subject matter.