Some Factors Affecting School Administration Under Free Primary Education In Likuyani Division, Lugari District, Western Province Of Kenya.

ABSTRACT

The research was concerned with some factors affecting School Administration

under Free Primary Education in Likuyani division, Lugari District, Western

Province - Kenya. The study identified the factors, their impacts and the measures

of solving them.

Using a cross-sectional survey research design, the samples employed in the study

were got from the F.P.E Schools. The researcher made use of the questionnaire

technique with the aid of focus group discussions to collect data. The data was

categorized through the use of descriptive statistics with the aid of frequencies,

percentages and central tendencies.

The major findings of the study were leading and managing change as a stressing

factor to school administrators, delegation of responsibilities, and lack of

accountability of funds, administrative and social relationships.

Recommendations included; the need for school administrators to be trained and

equipped with management skills to be able to handle and address specific

challenges, a need on the part of education colleges to train future school

administrators on how they can overcome day to day administrative challenges

and above all the need on the part of govenunent to lobby for more financial

support from both internal and external sources to supplement their financial base

and allocations to the education ministry.