Requirements for Applying Self-Administration for Secondary Schools in the City of Mecca

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the requirements for implementing self-management for secondary schools in Makkah. It followed the descriptive survey method, and the tool consisted of a questionnaire consisting of (40) statements distributed on four axes for the requirements: administrative, organizational, human, technical, and financial It was applied to a sample of (131) male and female principals of a public secondary school in Makkah. The study found that the requirements needed to apply self-management were very high, both in the total score and in the sub-axes: Administrative, organizational, technical, human and financial requirements, respectively. The results also showed that there were statistically significant differences between the means of the responses of the study sample on identifying the requirements for achieving self-management due to gender differences in favor of female school principals, while there were no differences due to differences in educational qualification or the number of years of experience. In light of these findings, the study recommended that the Ministry of Education should support the implementation of self-management in secondary schools as a means of developing and improving their performance and outputs, by developing the necessary legislation and policies and issuing regulations for its implementation, decentralizing the educational administration, and providing human, technical and financial resources.