Towards Effective Management of School Plant in Secondary Schools for Quality Assurance in Secondary Education in Sokoto State

The paper is to examine both public and private Schools in Sokoto State, as schools which are managed and control by Sokoto State Government in the provision of all required and mandatory resource and infrastructure for effective instruction and quality assurance. While private schools are also under the monitoring and full supervision of state government for effective teaching and learning process. Quality Assurance is the effort in which things are put in place in Accordance to the provision of law or the way they should be, school plant refers to everything that is within the school premises which includes buildings, Laboratories, libraries, football, pitch, swimming pools equipment and all essential structures that are permanent and non-permanent, the effective leadership is required in managing school plant, monitoring maintenance culture, e.t.c. It happen that, there are series number of issues concerning school plants management and maintenance which include poor delegation of task by the school Heads or laxity in performing duties, poor utilization of school properties. The paper also come up with the ways of utilizing school plant for effective Quality Assurance they includes the involvement of (S.B.M.C) community Stake Holders staffs and students full supervision and inspections by the Authority concerned, school Head should remained all the school plants for the school use not for commercial purposes. The paper concludes by identifying an issues related to effective managing of school plant which has to be taken into cognition for sound teaching and learning process. Recommendation where offer such as, modernizing and upgrading the school plant whenever the number grow, an effective control for the use of school plant Should put on place. Educational managers should not be Reluctant; they should act wisely for the use of school plant. Resource persons should all the time in updating their knowledge for the uses of present and future upcoming school plants