Education Laws and Students‟ Welfare Administration in Secondary Schools in Ondo State, Nigeria

This study investigated the extent to which student welfare services in Ondo State secondary schools were being provided and administered within the limits of the state education laws. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The stratified sampling technique, based on senatorial districts, school and location was used to select 50 out of 253 secondary schools in Ondo State and 10 Local Government areas out of existing 18 LGAS in the state. A structured questionnaire titled “Education Law and Student Welfare Administration Questionnaire” (ELSWAQ) was designed and validated for the study. The reliability of the instrument was established using test-retest method. A correlation coefficient of 0.89 was obtained which was considered high enough for reliability. The instrument was administered on 500 teachers. The data collected were analysed using the likert scale type while t-test statistical tool was used to test the hypotheses. The hypotheses raised to pilot the study were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that student’s health services were inadequately provided and poorly administered in the schools. Most of the teachers agreed that the students always complained of shoddy administration of school mid-day meals. Lip-services was being given to student safely devices in the school environment. All these poor administrations of student welfare devices negate the legal provisions in Ondo State education laws. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that regular workshops should be mounted for teachers to sensitize them on how to cautiously administer student welfare services within the limits of the legal provisions specified in Ondo State education laws.

Keywords: Education Laws, Student welfare, Administration and Secondary education