Al-Hikmah University Journal

The poor relationship between Nigeria’s public secondary education and their host communities has become a serious concern to all education stakeholders. For these reasons, this study intended to fill the gap by examined the School Community Industrial Relationship among Public secondary schools in Ibadan South East  Local Government Area  of Oyo State: Need for Peaceful Co-Existence. This study adopted descriptive survey research design and Multi-stage sampling procedure was employed for the study. Simple random sampling techniques was adopted to select 20 public secondary schools. A purposive sampling procedure was adopted to select one principal from each school (since there is only one principal in every public secondary school). A total number forty respondents were randomly selected for the study. A self-designed instruments titled: School Community Industrial Relationship Questionnaire (r =0.84) was administered. The instrument was validated by the experts in educational management and evaluation while test, retest method was adopted for the reliability. The correlation index of 0.84 was obtained. Three research hypotheses were answered. Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis were employed to test the one hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance respectively.  The findings revealed that there was a significant negative relationship between type of facilities available in the school and community relationship in public secondary schools in Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State. Since (r = 0.015; p<0.05); there was a significant positive relationship between effective communication and the school-community industrial relationship (r = 0.20; p<0.05). Also, there was a significant positive relationship between attitude of the school head and his staff towards the members of the community correlates with the school-community Industrial Relationship. Thus, the outcome (r = 0.15; p<0.05). Based on the findings, the study recommended that state government should provide adequate educational facilities to the schools so as to promote effective teaching.