The role of school boards of governors in forestalling Students' strikes in government secondary schools in Wakiso district, Uganda
Abstract
This study investigated the role of School Boards of Governors in forestalling students' strikes in
government comment secondary schools in Wakiso District. Specifically the Study focused on the
relationship between the strategic leadership of School Boards of Governors and students' strike,
the relationship between effective financial stewardship by the School Boards of Governor and
students' strike, the relationship between policy making and implementation by the School
Boards of Governors and students' and strike in government secondary schools and the
relationship between effective engagement of key stakeholders by the of the school Boards of
Governors and students' strike in government secondary schools in Wakiso district. The study
employed an explanatory research design that used a mixed method to collect both quantitative
and qualitative data. Data was collected using questionnaires and interviews. Findings of the
-study revealed that: l) Strategic leadership of School Boards of Governors was found to have
genitive but moderate statistical significant relationship on students' strikes, 2) Providing
effective financial stewardship by the School Boards of Governors was found to be having
Positive but weak statistical significant relationship on students' strikes, 3) Policy making and
.implementation had positive but moderate statistical significant relationship on students' strikes,
(4)Engagement of key stakeholders of the schools by the School Boards of Governors had
positive but low statistical significant relationship with students ' strikes. Basing on the above
findings, the study recommends that: a) Government of Uganda need to continue investing in
building leadership capacities of the School Boards of Governors in handling students' strikes in
secondary schools in the district, b) Government need to invest more on building capacities of
the School Boards of Governors on financial stewardship as a way of improving the development
of secondary schools and particularly effectively handling students' strikes in the district, c)
Government need to scale up investment in policy making, implementation, monitoring and
evaluation as a strategy of handling students' strikes, d) Government need to scale up effective
engagement of key stakeholders of schools as a means of promoting sustainable development of
education in the communities. The study recommends future studies to focus on students' strikes
in private secondary schools, Universities and Colleges. Furthermore, the role of the school
managers and parents in forestalling students' strikes in secondary schools also need to be investigated.