Secondary education occupies a unique position in the educational system of Nigeria. This level of
education is the intermediary between the primary level of education and tertiary levels of education. Due to
the unique position of this level of education in Nigerian Educational System, the National Policy of
Education (2014), states that the broad goals of secondary education shall be to prepare individual for useful
living within the society and higher education. It would be realized that the extent to which these goals can be
actualized will depend on the quality of education provided in the secondary school. School supervision and
inspection are carried out as an instrument for maintaining standards and quality control, so that the school
system can be put on the right track in the course of achieving its goal. This paper, therefore, examines school
supervision and inspection as veritable tools for ensuring quality control in selected secondary schools in Ekiti
State, Nigeria. The research instrument designed for the study was a questionnaire tagged School supervision
and inspection and quality control in secondary schools (SSIQCSS). The population of the study comprises
teachers in Ekiti State. A total of 100 teachers were purposely selected, this formed the sample of the study.
Findings revealed that supervision and inspection served as a measure for quality control in our secondary
schools, school Principals also embarked on regular routine school inspection, also, routine inspection carried
out by school inspectors serve as a means to maintain quality control in secondary schools in Ekiti State. Thus,
based on the findings of the study, the need to embark upon more modern techniques of supervision and
inspection to improve the quality of education in secondary schools was recommended. The educational system
must be adequately funded so that there would be high level of quality and efficiency. Modern techniques of
supervision should be adopted or replaced with old ones. Finally, there is the need for collaborative efforts on
the part of all education stakeholders to devise more quality control measures that can save the educational
system from total collapse.
KEY WORDS: Supervision, Inspection, Quality Control, Secondary Schools
SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION AS VERITABLE
TOOLS FOR QUALITY CONTROL IN SECONDARY
SCHOOLS IN EKITI STATE, NIGERIA