Influence of Board of Management Governance Practices on Implementation of Safety Standards Policy in Secondary Schools in Kisumu Central Sub County, Kenya

Abstract

This study sought to determine how BOM governance practices affected the execution of the safety standards policy in secondary schools in Kenya's Kisumu Central Sub County. Establishing the impact of BOMs' sensitization of school community, BOMs' approval of school budget, BOMs' maintenance of institutional infrastructure, and BOMs' approval of enforcement of school rules and regulations on implementation of safety standards in secondary schools in Kisumu Central Sub County, Kenya, was one of the study's four research objectives. Stakeholder theory, developed by Freeman, served as the study's main direction (1984).In Kisumu Central Sub County, Kenya, a descriptive research design was employed with a sample population of 13 principals, 456 teachers, 221 BOMs, 8289 students, 1 Sub County education official, and 1 SCQASO. A total of 379 respondents were included in the sample for this study, which also included 143 BOM chairpersons, 169 students, 65 instructors, 1 Sub County education official, and 1 SCQASO. Interview guides and questionnaires were used as data gathering instruments. For the study of quantitative data, descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were used, while inferential statistics such as correlation and regression were employed. Thematic analysis was employed to examine qualitative data. The version 23.0 of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used to analyze the data.Based on the study's initial objective, the following were its major findings. BOM determined that BOMs' ability to increase school community awareness was statistically significant (M=3.12, r=0.908, r2=0.824; p0.05). According to the study's second goal, the BOMs' support of the budget for the school was statistically significant (M=3.21, r=0.845, r2=0.714; p>0.05). According to the study's third goal, the upkeep of institutional infrastructure by BOMs was discovered to be statistically significant (M=3.16, r=0.815, r2=0.664; p>0.05). based on the study's fourth objective.It was determined that BOMs' support for the enforcement of school policies and rules was statistically significant (M=3.35, r=0.191, r2=0.036; p>0.05). This study comes to the conclusion that the school community's awareness of the safety standards policy, the school budget approval by BOMs, the maintenance of institutional infrastructure by BOMs, and the BOMs' approval of the enforcement of school rules and regulations by BOMs all had an impact on funds for project completion in secondary schools. This analysis came to the conclusion that there weren't enough finances to implement the safety standards policy. The report suggests that the Ministry of Education make sure that BOMs at the schools in Kisumu Central Sub-County educate the school community on the safety standards policy as well as how it is put into practice.Kisumu Central Sub-County parents and the Ministry of Education should make sure that timely payments or disbursements of enough monies are made to the schools. To encourage adherence to school rules and regulations, the Ministry of Education should see to it that BOMs in Kisumu Central Sub-County provide copies of them to the students.