Research Paper
Year: 2021 | Month: September | Volume: 8 | Issue: 9 | Pages: 574-581
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20210972
Internal Management Integration Policies and School-Community Relations in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State
Sam-Kalagbor, Osaruchi Victoria, Osuji, Catherine U.
Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Rivers State University, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Corresponding Author:Sam-Kalagbor
ABSTRACT
The study investigated internal management integration policies and school-community relations in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted correlational design. The population of the study is 1,071 respondents. A sample of 535 respondents was drawn using simple random sampling technique. Two sets of instruments were used for data collection. The first was titled: ‘Internal Management Integration Policies Questionnaire and the second was School-Community Relations Questionnaire. The reliability of 0.83 was determined with Cronbach Statistics. Out of 535 copies of questionnaire administered, 508 were properly filled and retrieved which represented 95% return rate. The Research questions were answered using Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) while Hypotheses were tested using r-ratio at 0.05 level of significance. The finding among others are that high positive relationship exists between award of contracts to community members and school-community relations and the null hypothesis of no significant relationship between award of contracts to community members and school-community relations is rejected. It was concluded that internal management integration policies have high positive relationship to school-community relations in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State. It was recommended among others that higher institutions’ administration should give full implementation to local content laws during the award of contracts in the school environment.
Keywords: Internal, management, Integration, Policies, School-Community.
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