Training on Leadership and Administrative Skills as Correlate of Effective Administration of Adult Education Programmes in South East Nigeria

Abstract

This study determined the relationship between training on leadership and administrative skills of adult educators and effective administration of Adult education programmes in South-east Nigeria. The study adopted a correlation survey research design. The sample of the study was all the 75 Adult Educators in the five tertiary institutions that offer Adult education programme in the South-east Nigeria. Census sampling technique was used for the study. The instruments for data collection were researcher developed questionnaire titled: Training on Leadership and Administrative skills Questionnaire” (TLASQ) and Effective Administration of Adult Education Questionnaire (EAAEQ). The instruments were validated by three experts. Pearson product moment correlation was used to answer the seven research questions raised for the study while linear regression analysis was used to test the null the hypotheses that guided the study at 0.05 level of significance. The findings showed among others that training on leadership skills as well as training on administrative skills significantly to a positive very high extent relate to effective administration of programmes in the South East, Nigeria. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that Non-Governmental Oganizations and other stakeholders should collaborate with the government in organizing regular workshops and orientations to the adult educators in order to enable them acquire communication and other necessary skills that will enhance the administrative effectiveness of adult education programme.