Contemporary Roles of Elected Student Council on Management of Public Secondary Schools in Kenya: A Survey of Selected Secondary Schools in Nakuru East Sub-County

The purpose of this study was to determine the contemporary strategic roles of elected student council on the management of public secondary schools. The study was based on a descriptive survey design. The target population was 135 student leaders and 12 deputy principals in public secondary schools in the Nakuru East Sub County. A sample size of 7 secondary schools was randomly selected through stratified sampling. Purposive sampling was used to select 7 deputy principals while stratified and simple random sampling was used to select a sample of 100 student leaders. Data was collected by the use of questionnaires and interview schedules. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used in data analysis. Descriptive statistics included mean, percentages and standard deviations while inferential statistics used included Pearson correlation analysis. The study concluded that there was positive relationship between leadership roles, communication channel, discipline roles and decision making and school management. Thus the study established leadership roles, communication roles, discipline roles and decision making roles were the contemporary roles of the student council in the school management in secondary schools in the Nakuru East Sub County. The study, recommends that the student council should be empowered, be allowed to participate more in decision-making on matters concerning students’ welfare so as to help reduce problems faced in secondary schools in the Nakuru East Sub County and to participate in management meetings to represent the student body.