Review of Teaching Staff Manpower Retention and Stock in Secondary Schools:

Cornelius Ofobuisi  Okorie; Okechukwu Egwu Ibiam; Chiedozie P.  Nwosu; Ayodeji O. Adedeji; Sunday Onele

Cornelius Ofobuisi Okorie Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria
Okechukwu Egwu Ibiam Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria
Chiedozie P. Nwosu Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria
Ayodeji O. Adedeji Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria
Sunday Onele Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Nigeria

Keywords: education policy, public Secondary schools, philosophy of education, standard of education, schools performance

Abstract

For some decades, scholarly debate on manpower related issues have dominated discussions on the standard of education. This paper tried to match manpower retention and attrition with the philosophy of public secondary education in Ebonyi north senatorial zone of Ebonyi state, Nigeria. We x-rayed the manpower capacity of public secondary schools with the view to finding if the current stock would achieve the philosophy of secondary education as contained in the approved National Policy on Education in Nigeria. Specifically, our emphasis was on the manpower qualification, sufficiency, sex mix and subject specialty. Using the multi-stage sampling techniques, the study revealed significant cases of unqualified teachers in the zone, cases of insufficiency of teachers in some schools; lopsided deployment of teachers and imbalanced sex mix amongst others. Study implications in these schools were evidenced on the performances of students in external examinations and the prevailing decline in the standard of education in the zone.