PROFESSIONAL ETHICS IN SCHOOL FUNDING, MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION

Abstract

This paper examined professional ethics in school with focus on funding, management and supervision. The paper discussed professional ethics and its importance in education, school funding, school management as well as school supervision. It also describe the need for professional ethics in school funding, school management and school supervision as well as the ways of ensuring professional ethics in school funding. Since professional ethics serves as a guide to the conduct of activities by teachers, educational managers and supervisors, the consequences of non-compliance to professional ethics were also discussed to serve as pointer to administrators. The paper concluded that because professional ethics enhances quality in education, the government, educators and other stakeholders should work together to ensure maintenance of ethical standard in the education sector. It is suggested among others, that government should institutionalize a policy guideline for ethical standard as well as strengthen monitoring and evaluation system.