STUDENTS’ CRISES MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS IN OSUN STATE-OWNED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The study investigated students’ crisis management strategies and school effectiveness in Osun State government-owned tertiary institutions. The study adopted a descriptive research design of correlational type. The population for study comprised of 697 academic staff, 16 administrators, and 20 supervising ministries in the sampled government-owned tertiary institutions in Osun State. The researcher, through the use of simple random sampling technique, selected four out of the six government-owned tertiary institutions in Osun State, while the proportional sampling technique was used to select 281 stakeholders. Self-designed questionnaire titled: ‘‘Students’ Crisis Management Strategies Questionnaire (SCMSQ) and Students’ Academic Performance Proforma (SAPP) were used to collect necessary data. The mean, standard deviation and Multiple Regression were used to answer the research questions and test hypotheses raised and formulated respectively. The findings indicated that there was a significant prediction of lecturers’ compensation and goal achievement in Federal Colleges of Education, South-west, Nigeria. The study concluded that adequate compensation would go a long way in enhancing effective realisation of the goals of these institutions. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that: government should sustain and intensify their efforts by paying more attention to lecturer compensation through timely promotion, provision of affordable health services, salaries and improved training opportunities.