Management problems that the principals of secondary vocational and technical education institutions faced principals

Principals of secondary level vocational and technical education institutions have to deal many managerial responsibilities and problems and have to cope with them. The principals of vocational and technical secondary schools as working in these sub-system face problems generally in the area of ?student service?, ?personnel service?, ?teaching and learning service?, ?administrative service? and ?school finance management?. It is necessary to find out the types of problems they have encountered and suggest necessary advices in these areas. The aim of the research is to find out the management problems that vocational and technical secondary school principals faced related to the managerial process according to the directorates they are related to , the frequency of these problems, to take attention by not determining the negative influence level of their job and to develop necessary solutions for the problems. V The research population consisted of 62 principals of secondary educational institutions attached to the Directorate General of Technical Education for Boys, Directorate General of Technical Education for Girls and Directorate General Trade and Tourism Education related to Ministry of National Education during 2005-2006 academic year. Among the 62 principals only 57 schools principals were arrived as a research sample.54 principals have been evaluated. A self-administered questionnaire (A Five Scale Likert type ) was used to gather data. In the questionnaire, in addition to the personal questions, 131 questions related to the problems? dimensions were asked and a Five Scale Likert type has been used. The data gathered from the questionnaire were transferred to the computer and analysed by using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). T -test and One Way ANOVA were applied to find out the differences between the ideas of school principals. According to the variance analysis results, Scheffe test has been used to determine the difference between the groups. As a result of the data analysis it has been found that the major problems that the school faced were in school finance and this area was rated as very important. Also school principals were facing some problems in the area of ?student service?, `?personnel service?, `?teaching and learning service? and `?administrative service?; but these problems were rated as medium.