The Role of School Administration in Directing Secondary School Students towards the Specializations Needed by the Saudi Labor Market 10.35781/1637-000-106-007

Abstract

The study aimed to know the role of the school administration in directing secondary school students towards the specializations needed by the Saudi labor market, as well as the most prominent obstacles that prevent the school administration from directing secondary students to the specializations needed by the labor market. To achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive approach was used, and the study population consisted of secondary school teachers in the Office of Education in kindergarten in Riyadh, numbering (400) teachers, and a stratified random sample of (51) teachers was selected, and the questionnaire was used as a tool to collect information. The study reached several results, most notably: The scarcity of the school administration's organization of field visits for students to visit governmental and private institutions to see the nature of work in those institutions, and the weak interest of the school administration in activating the role of activity committees to contribute to directing students towards the specializations needed by the labour market. Not hosting the school administration interested and experts in the fields of job need to educate students about the needs of the Saudi labor market. - Failure of the school administration to coordinate with the ministries concerned with employment to see the available job opportunities. -The school administration discourages students from learning about the needs of the labor market in terms of the workforce. -The lack of planning of the school administration to direct students towards the specializations needed by the Saudi labor market since the beginning of each year. -The existence of obstacles that often prevent the school administration from directing secondary students to the specializations needed by the labor market, including: the lack of contribution of governmental and private institutions in providing the school administration with guidelines on the job opportunities available to it and what qualifications are necessary to fill them, the obsolescence of the content of the curriculum and its inability to meet the needs of the renewed labor market, the lack of powers granted to the school principal with regard to directing students towards the specializations needed by the labor market, and the large number of administrative burdens that limit the ability of the school administration to Designing programs that contribute to directing students towards the specializations needed by the Saudi labor market.