RUAHA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY

This article critically assesses school quality assurance challenges in improving teachers‘ accountability in public secondary schools in Iringa Municipality. The study employed a qualitative approach under a descriptive research design. Purposive sampling was applied to obtain a sample of 30 participants who were teachers (n=20), Heads of School (n=4), Secondary School Quality Assurers (n=4), District Secondary Education Officer (n=1), and Zonal Chief School Quality Assurer (n=1). Data were collected through interviews and documentary review and analysed through content analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the major challenges facing school quality assurers were incompetent of teachers in their subject of specialization, school quality assurers lack financial resources, in schools there was lack of implementation of School Quality Assurers‘ recommendations, lack of in-service opportunity for training and retraining; lack of educational materials and lack of specialist for teachers in guidance and counseling.

Accountability, Quality Assurers, school quality assurers.