Private
secondary schools in Kenya need a strategy in order to ensure that they offer
value to the community they serve. The schools are also driven by results and
the performance of their students and this means that they need to implement
some strategy to ensure that they meet these objectives. It is through meeting
these objectives that they are able to gain their competitive advantage.
Private secondary schools in Kenya cannot base their performance or expect
results without implementing a strategy that gets them to where they want to
be. If it is the case that these results are achieved through guesswork then
this makes them unstable and unsustainable which eventually reflects negatively
on the stakeholders.
Strategy ensures growth and development in private schools in terms of enrollment,
improvement of learning equipments and facilities. Private secondary schools
need strategy to ensure that there is a low student to teacher ratios in order
to improve the effectiveness of their service and enable them address the different
needs of the students with a personalized touch. Strategy in the private
schools will also guide professional development of the staff this will in turn
translate to better overall performance. This will ensure that the private
schools are able to retain excellent and differs faculty.
Strategy
will ensure that the private secondary schools utilize their resources
adequately through appropriate allocation. This ensures that all resources
allocated for educational or administrative purposes are utilized as such. For
example the school bus may not be used to run the principals private businesses
instead of taking students and teachers on educational field trips. This
represents misuse of the resources which were to be used for purposes of
improving the schools performance.
Private
secondary schools need a strategy to ensure they remain focused on their
objectives. Just like any other entity private schools can also lose focus of
their goals in the long run. A strategy helps ensures that the stakeholders are
constantly reminded of what they are required to achieve. For example if the
institution’s vision is to offer world class standards of education or increase
the level of diversity or improve performance to be the top school nationally.
Then all actions by the institutions should be in support of that vision. This
means that private schools need a strategy to govern their actions in order to
work towards achievement of the vision.
Private
secondary schools need a strategy to help them in dealing with the external and
internal environments. Just like any entity, private schools also exist within
an environment which is unpredictable and can wreak havoc if the entity is not
prepared. So the strategy helps in forecasting and predicting some of these events and if they are noticed earlier the negative impacts from the
environmental changes can be minimized or avoided altogether. Strategy also
presents opportunity for adaptations to the environment for private schools.
In
conclusion, private secondary schools in Kenya need a strategy as illustrated.
It would be risky for private secondary schools to operate without a strategy
and miss out on the benefits that it offers.