School Quality and Security Management in Nigeria Universities: Challenges and Way Forward

The education system is based on the National Policy on Education (NPE). The policy document addresses the issues of imbalance in the provision of education in different parts of the country with regard to access, quality of resources and girls' education. Schools are thriving to meet the educational needs of the students and of the community as a whole, they themselves, as open systems, are open to every kind of security threads coming from inside and outside of the school environment. Due to the social, economic, and cultural conditions of our time, various individual or group threats may be consciously or unconsciously exerted on schools. Schools may also be exposed to pandemic diseases, fires, and many natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, landslides, and so on. And the school management, together with the school community, has to be prepared for all of these kinds of threads, and have to develop strategies to deal adequately deal with them. Quality teaching in school is the use of pedagogical techniques to produce learning outcomes for students. It involves several dimensions, including the effective design of curriculum and course content, a variety of learning contexts (including guided independent study, project-based learning, collaborative learning, experimentation, etc.), soliciting and using feedback, and effective assessment of learning outcomes. The political, economic and social systems of a country create the conditions for security and insecurity. Security management is a first-order or necessary precondition for the development of human beings and society. Therefore, security management is the most basic need of human beings and societies. As open systems, the schools have been deeply affected by the economical, political, and social conditions of our time, and have been expose too many undesirable events and behaviors such as substance addiction, violence, child abuse, sabotage, and the like. To tackle the security problems at schools, it is an asset to diagnose the problems at the first hand and then to search the system wide solutions. Therefore, the thrust of this study is to investigate the school quality and security management in Nigeria universities the challenges and way forward and to develop recommendations.