School-Based management: A panacea for school improvement

The purpose of education reforms is to bring about newness in terms of competencies and skills. Many reforms have been introduced in the country's education system with the aim of improving and increasing student achievement. School-based Management was introduced as one of the many strategies employed to improve student performance. This paper addresses how SBM contributes to student achievements. To do so we asked the following questions: Why the sudden obsession about SBM? What is its role in school improvement process? Why are governments eagerly pushing for this approach in their education reform processes as if it was the panacea for quality education?