Administrative Strategies in Maintenance of School Safety for Quality Academic Delivery in Tertiary Institutions in Kogi State

The main purpose of this research is to find out the administrative strategies in maintenance of school safety for quality academic delivery in tertiary institutions in Kogi State. Descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population of this study comprised all staff of the nine (9) tertiary institutions in Kogi State, totaling four thousand seven hundred and seventeen staff (4,717).A sample size of one three hundred and twenty one (321) respondents were used. To compose this sample, multistage sampling procedure was used. Two instruments were used for data collection. The instruments are a self-structured questionnaire and interview. The questionnaire is titled Maintaining School Safety for Quality Academic Delivery Questionnaire (MSSQADQ) and the second instrument is an interview schedule. The instrument for data collection was validated by three experts two from Measurement and Evaluation and one in the Department of Educational Foundations in University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the reliability index of 0.71. The research questions were interpreted descriptively using mean and standard deviation, while t-t was used to test the hypotheses. The findings among others revealed that; all the administrative strategies were agreed to by the respondents as strategies that can enhance school safety for quality academic delivery. Based on the findings of this study the following recommendations among others were made; School administrators should be committed to the provision of quality educational facilities eg buildings, security gadgets, fence etc.