ABSTRACT
This study was designed to assess the Effects of Students' Unrest on the Management of Higher Institutions in Kaduna State. The study was set to achieve some of the following objectives: examine causes and problems associated with students ' unrest, examine the effects of underfunding of education on students welfare services, ascertain the role of guidance and counseling services in averting students ' unrest, ascertain techniques of the management of students' unrest. Students' unrest results to loss of lives; if students' unrest results to: loss of lives, underrated status of qualification, breeds bad school-community relationships and causes general decay and low in academic standards. Inadequate funds pushing students in to anti social behaviour and negative conditions such as truancy, cultism, armed robbery and examination malpractices, elongation of academic program etc. Descriptive research method was employed through which data was collected by the use of questionnaire. The respondents comprises of 71 staff and 260 students. The data was analyzed and interpreted though the use of t- test method of analysis. The research discovered that there were shortages in: funding of education, staff and facilities in guidance and counseling units and sporting facilities for students. A lot of property is destroyed, lives lost as a result of students' unrest, and general students' relationships was poor. In view of the above it is recommended that government should improve the funding of education, school community relations be enhanced, school management should improve ways of internal revenue generation, involve students in decisions that affect them, and modernize communication channels between school management and students through FM radio stations on campuse