CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background of the Study

The school as a social institution has the social and constitutionalresponsibilities of educating the students and protecting them from the abuse oftheir rights and privileges. Effective students’ personnel administration demandsthat various administrative activities and services should be carried out by theschool, within the established rules and regulations, in order to ensure totaldevelopment of the students Bassey, Arop, Akpama & Ayang, (2012). Thismeans that school administrators shall not only be knowledgeable aboutstudents’ rights, but should also be proficient in the protection and promotion ofthese rights (Nakpodia, 2011).

The principal co-ordinates and ensures that the various process ofadministrative activities and services are carried out by the school within anestablished rules and regulations so as to ensure total development of thestudents in a given school. According to Nakpodia (2009) principals are alsoTeachers in Nigerian schools system, who in their position in-loco-parentis tothe children in their charge act, reasonably in this capacity, provided theiractions are in accordance with general and approved educational practice,,, Theprincipal is the leader of secondary school or Chief Executive Officer of114secondary school administration. Principals as leaders have the key forachieving sustainable enormous education reforms like accountability, standard,test, enhancing legal rights of students, site based management, school climateand turning schools into professional learning communities Fullan(2002).