SPORTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN IMO STATE OF NIGERIA

SPORTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN IMO STATE OF NIGERIA

Abstract: 

 This is a case study intended to establish the sports and administrative practices in selected schools and colleges in Imo State of Nigeria". To carry out this task several aspects of the School Sports administration were studied in relation to the institutions. These aspects included Personnel, sports Philosophy, Facilities and Eauipment, sports programme administration, Financing the programme, Public Relations and Evaluation. Data for the study were collected from 84 out of 375 post primary institutions in the state. These institutions were selected by method of stratified random sampling. This method enabled the investigator to represent in the sample every form of institution. Teacher Training Colleges, Technical Schools, Vocational Schools, Comprehensive Schools and Grammar Schools in proportion to the number of such institutions in the state. Effort was also made to represent institutions that exist both in the urban and rural parts of the state. 

The instrument for the collection of data included questionnaire forms, interviews and personal observations of the investigator. Pour sets of questionnaires were designed for Inspectors of Education in the nineteen States of the Federation, the Principals of the institutions studied; the gamesmasters/gamesmistresses and the star athletes. Data was collected from the Chief Inspectors of all the states of Nigeria for comparative purposes. The data collected, were analyzed and interpreted by the use of decriptive statistics. The data, when analyzed, revealed that thestate has inadequate number of sports administrators considering the student enrdlments in the institutions. Moreover many of those available do not have professional preparation. The trained gamesmasters are concentrated in the few Teacher Training Colleges, facilities and equipment are inadequate in the institutions. The sports programme is poorly financed. Public Relation aspect of the sports programme is sound. The sports administrative procedures are in line with happens in most other states of Nigeria and sound evaluation is carried out in the programme. Recommendations were made to improve the deficient areas. Qualified Physical educators should be well spread throughout the institutions. 

Refresher Courses should be made available to all categories of sports administrators, facilities and equipment should be increased to reach more students and enhance mass participation. More financial aid should be extended to the programme. Sports administrators should be given better remunerations while in-service training programmes should be made available to them. Most of these recommendations were given by the respondents to the questionnaires. Relations between the institutions and the community should be enhanced by the use of the sports programme. More areas of study were recommended.