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This paper is a descriptive study to examining educational facilities in public schools as strategy for school safety management in Rivers State, Nigeria. This was carried out among the 245 Public Senior Secondary Schools. There were 2 research questions and 2 hypotheses formulated with 6 item questionnaire based on four-point Likert scale drawn and administered for collection of data. Mean and standard deviation was used to analyze the research questions while z-statistics was used to test the hypotheses. The findings indicate that there is (i) no significant difference between the mean scores of male principals and female principals (ii) no significant difference between the mean scores of urban principals and rural Principals on ways hazards arising from educational facilities can be curbed as strategy for school safety management in Rivers State, Nigeria. The recommendations include the need for provision and maintenance of existing facilities, risk analysis of facilities, school inspections and audits, adequate funding, training of school administrators, managers and personnel amongst others.
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To Cite this Article: Ugwulashi, C. S. (2017). Educational Facilities: Appropriate Strategy for School Safety Management in Rivers State, Nigeria. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 6(2), 13–22.
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