Board of governors’ competence and performance of government aided secondary schools in Maracha district, Uganda

Abstract

The study investigated BoGs’ competence on performance of students in Government aided secondary schools in Maracha District, Uganda. The objectives were to examine the level of BoG’s: financial planning; monitoring of infrastructure, facilities, equipment; and supervision competence of staff and student discipline and Performance in Government aided secondary schools in Maracha District. The study was mainly quantitative in nature and employed a cross-sectional survey design. The sample size consisted of 150 respondents. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain the study participants. Data were collected through a questionnaire with close -ended and open-ended items and analysed using descriptive statistics. Findings reveal that the level of BoGs’ financial planning competence is high in Government aided secondary schools in Maracha District as reflected by the grand mean of 4.0453 and standard deviation of 0.8206. The study findings also indicate that the BoGs members’ competence regarding monitoring of school infrastructure, facilities, equipment growth in government aided secondary schools in Maracha District is moderated as reflected by aggregated mean of 3.6794 and a standard deviation of 0.8262. It was also established that BoGs members’ competence to monitor staff and students’ discipline on Government aided secondary schools in Maracha District is high as reflected by aggregate grand mean of 4.16 and standard deviation of 0.62. The study concluded that: that the level of BoGs financial planning Competence in government aided secondary schools in Maracha district is adequate; meanwhile they competence to monitor school facilities and equipment is moderate; whilst, their competence to supervise staff and students’ is sufficient. It is hereby recommended that that seminars and workshops should be regularly organised for the BoGs members to improve their financial evaluation. Secondly, seminars and workshops should be regularly organised for the BoGs members to improve BoGs members’ capacity to spur infrastructure development of schools in the Government aided secondary schools in Maracha District. Seminars and workshops need to be organised regularly for the BoGs members to enhance and maintain their competence level to supervise staff and students discipline.