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Article Title: Principals' Quality Assurance Techniques for Enhancing Secondary School Quality Education in the 21st Century
by Osakwe, Regina N.

Abstract:
The aim of secondary school education encompasses the acquisition of knowledge and skills producing graduates prepared for higher education and become valuable members who will help in the growth and development of the nation in all ramifications. Despite this laudable aim, the products of secondary schools are turned out half-baked becoming liability than assets due to poor standards resulting from the defective educational system. Hence, this aim would be achieved through employing principals� quality assurance techniques in secondary schools. Hence, this paper discussed principals� quality assurance techniques for enhancing secondary school quality education in the 21st century in Delta State, Nigeria. The paper will create awareness of quality assurance techniques to the principals who occupy a vital position and play a central role in the delivery of secondary school curriculum to ensure quality education. This paper identified and discussed the concepts of quality and quality assurance highlighting its functions in bringing about quality education in our secondary schools. It also highlighted the quality assurance techniques employed by principals for achieving quality education in secondary schools. This paper concluded that for principals� quality assurance techniques to be effective for the attainment of educational objectives there should be collaboration with education stakeholders and parents. It also made some useful recommendations to include adequate funding, provision of personnel, instructional and infrastructural facilities by government to enhance quality education in secondary schools.

Keywords: Principals, Quality, Quality assurance, Techniques, Secondary schools, Enhancing, Stakeholders,

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