As a proprietor and
school owner, have you ever wondered what makes some schools to stand out while
others are just crawling sluggishly behind with a constant reduction in student
population size?
The reason why some schools loss students and reduce profit is due to some if not all of these reasons, which shall be outlined shortly. In an attempt to draw a barrier, we categorized all schools into two types.
The good schools: those proprietors who have been able to overcome these challenges and the bad schools, those schools or proprietor who are just opposite the good schools. Hence, there is a lucid difference between the good schools and the bad schools. What are these differences?
The reason why some schools loss students and reduce profit is due to some if not all of these reasons, which shall be outlined shortly. In an attempt to draw a barrier, we categorized all schools into two types.
The good schools: those proprietors who have been able to overcome these challenges and the bad schools, those schools or proprietor who are just opposite the good schools. Hence, there is a lucid difference between the good schools and the bad schools. What are these differences?
GOOD SCHOOLS
Differentiate school accounts from
their personal accounts but the bad schools do not. The bad schools use
personal accounts as the school account and in worse cases; they do not have
bank accounts at all. In each of the above cases whatever income earned is
spent personally leaving little or nothing for the school development and teachers
salary. If in this age and time when microfinance banks and big plc banks are opening zero naira
accounts, a proprietor cannot open a school account, then, that proprietor falls
into our category of bad schools.
THE BAD SCHOOLS
Admit students anytime but the good
schools don’t. Due to the fact that they are bad schools, they claim that they
do not have enough students, and as a result admit students at any or every
period of the term. This makes their schools the dumping ground of
unproductive, academically bankrupt students from the good school. As a school,
when you admit students anytime in a term, you are sending a very negative
message to the public “we do not have a standard,
we take anything” and this is why parents who are debtors in other schools
will bring their children and pay half school fees. The result is having poor
students with parents who are debtors. But the good schools admit first term
with entrance exams and open up space for transfer in the second term with
another exam, to out the best, leaving out the below average students for the
bad schools
THE GOOD SCHOOLS
Organize regular seminars, train and provide
incentive for their teachers. The bad schools think that organizing seminars to
train teachers is a waste of resources and effort, because their teachers will
leave soonest. The strength of the good schools is their ability to develop
their teachers to the level or standard they want and providing them with
necessary incentive which make the teachers never want to leave. The truth is,
when a school employs a teacher and do not train the teacher, such a school
does not have standards and organizational culture.
THE BAD SCHOOLS
Employ less qualified to pay less
money. The good schools employ more qualified teachers, pay more money and yet
make more profit because the qualified teachers work to bring more students to
increase profit.
BAD SCHOOLS
Employ their teachers based on
familiarity. A very unique character of very good schools is that they employ
strictly on merit, competence, experience and qualification, but the bad
schools employ teachers and staff out of self pity, family ties, and
familiarity or in an attempt to please friends, colleagues and family members
who might have referred such teachers.
The difference between the bad and
the good schools are so obvious and distinguishing but the good news is that the bad schools can
improve,
innovate and make changes to become
good schools in the shortest possible time provided that proprietors can make
the decision to change.
If your school possesses two or more
characteristics of the bad schools, you have the capacity to become a good
school too.
To create a SWOT-SCUP Analysis,
critical development plan and strategy for your school growth, please contact the
strategic team of
The Geniuskrool Edupreneur
The Geniuskrool Edupreneur
Call: +234809 375 9013 email: geniuskrool@gmail.com