Ethical Re-Engineering of School Administration and the Attainment of National Unity Imperatives among Students in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study investigated the extent to which values re-engineering for skills acquisition predict sustainable entrepreneurial education in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. Three research questions and three hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The design for this study was a correlational design. The population of the study comprised 72,893 school administrators and students in the 335 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. A sample of 397 respondents was drawn from the population using Taro Yamane formula for minimum sample size. The instruments for data collection were researchers’ designed instruments titled “Ethical Re-engineering of School Administration Questionnaire and Attainment of National Unity Imperatives among Students Scale”. The instruments contain 38-items and structured using four points rating scale. The instruments were validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha method, which yielded alpha values of 0.88 and 0.84 respectively and overall reliability index of 0.83, while Attainment of National Unity Imperatives among Students Scale reliability index of 0.86. Simple regression was used to answer research questions 1, 2 and 3, while t-test associated with simple regression was used to test hypotheses 1, 2 and 3 at 0.05 alpha level. The findings of the study revealed that ethical reengineering of school administration on tolerance and patriotism significantly predicts the attainment of national unity imperatives among students’ in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study recommended that School administrators should create a school environment where tolerance is practiced daily by establishing multi-ethnic and multi-religious student clubs, organizing school-wide events that celebrate the diverse cultures.