Abstract:
The study investigated the security challenges managerial skills needed to enhance security in
Colleges of Education in South East Nigeria. It adopted a descriptive survey design. Two research
questions and two non hypothesis guided the study. The population of the study comprised of 15
management staff and 88 heads of department of the three Federal Colleges of Education in South
East Nigeria. All the management staff and heads of department were used because of their small
size. This gave total of 113 respondents. An instrument constructed by researchers, titled: security
challenges and Managerial Skills Questionnaire (CSMSQ) was used for data collection. The
instrument was validated by three experts, two experts from Educational Management and one expert
from measurement and Evaluation, all from Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University,
Igbariam. The reliability was established using a test – re-test method it yielded 0.79correlations,
coefficient using cronbatch Alpha method. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard
deviation. The results of data analysis revealed that there were problems in security posed by
ineffective managerial skills in Colleges of Education like porousness of the school compound, lack
of modern communication gadgets and intermittent incursion by night marauders. Based on the
findings of the study, the researchers recommend that, there is need for schools to organize training
and workshops for security personnel, using appropriate communication skills and channels. There is
also need for the employers of labour to employ experienced personnel security men and women to
man the security of the colleges of Education.
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