The Problems and Approaches to Educational Planning in Nigeria: A Theoretical Observation

Ololube, Nwachukwu Prince

doi:10.5901/mjss.2013.v4n12p37

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“…The researchermaintained that educational planning should take into account any future changes that may want to affect existing plans hence the need for flexibility. Nwankwo (1981) explained that educational planning is a process of preparing a set of decisions about educational enterprise in such a way that the goals and purposes of education will be sufficiently realized in future with the available resources.According to Ololube (2013) educational planning is a concise and deliberate attempt, through organized and continuous processes to identify the different elements and aspects of the educational industry. It helps us in determining the present state and interaction, hence projecting them throughout a given period of time.…”

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“…A plan is described as efficient if the resources put into it are sufficient in meeting the stated objectives. Ololube (2013) opined that it is important for educational production to be both effective and efficient so as to properly guide the internal and external changes in the school as it utilizes the educational resources available. Unfortunately resources are scarce in a developing country like Nigeria where education has to compete with other sector for the allocation of funds within limited resources and this makes it imperative for educational planners not to be wasteful hence plan effectively for even unforeseen circumstances that may affect education for all (Edem,2004;Edame,2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Environmental Volatility and Effectiveness of Educational Planning: The Nigeria Experience

Ajani¹

2021

IJRESD

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The school structures in old times used to be situated in an isolated environment because it is believed that such serenity was conducive for learning. Unfortunately those old outskirt has become city which is now vulnerable to interference in a way that things which were not experience in school areas before have become the norms. Recently, Nigeriahas witnessed unexpected volatility which has affected her education system. Attacks such as kidnapping, suicide bombing, insurgencies, school-based violence, banditry, religion crisis, hoodlum attacks, break-in and vandalism of school properties by hoodlums and drug addicts to attacks involving burning schools or killing, injuring, kidnapping, detaining or torturing students, teachers and academics.Pandemic such as Ebola and covid-19represents a huge threat to security as it usually claim lives and destroys few available school infrastructures. The consequences which leads high drop-out rates, reduction in enrolment and lower teaching quality worsen effective educational planning and sustainable national development such that if pro-active measures are not put in place, long term danger awaits the quality of labour force and human capital needed for a sustainable economy. Ensuring education continuity and safe school in a volatile environment is of a great concern to education planners such that such either internal or external influences that contributes to unstable or violent environment will not affect the effectiveness of planning education (Nwosu et al., 2019; GCPEA, 2017; Akintunde and Musa, 2016).To achieve the goals of education, it has to evolve in an environment free of violence as learning rates fluctuate with the volatility of the environment. Disruptions in education can reduce the likelihood that students will return to school, even when they re-open, and can, in the long term, impact individual earnings and the country’s ability to rebuild its national economy.

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Section: Educational Planningmentioning

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Section: Educational Planningmentioning

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Environmental Volatility and Effectiveness of Educational Planning: The Nigeria Experience

Ajani¹

2021

IJRESD

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“…The quality of technical planning is in most cases inhibited by statistical deficiencies and inaccurate data. Nigerian education systems have failed to effectively plan because of lack of accurate data, which is because of the use of mediocre to prepare data for use in the planning and forecasting processes Ololube, [40]. The place of planning is highly indispensable in educational sector.…”

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The Use of Data in Policy-Making in Nigeria’s Educational Sector: Implications for National Development

Azuh¹,

Joshua²,

Ibietan³

2016

INTED2016 Proceedings

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Policy making simply denotes the use of resources to meet public concern. Suffice to say that the act of policy making is an act of political compromise among policy makers. Policy making is a tool to direct the course of educational system of any country towards achieving desired ends. If wrong policies are made in directing the course of education, the result will be educational maladministration which will have adverse effects on the learners with long term implication for national development. It is therefore not a surprise that developed countries of the world are very careful in making sure that educational policies are guided by relevant data. However, developing countries are lagging behind in the use of data-driven for policy making as far as educational sector is concerned. Using public choice theory as an explanatory tool, with secondary data gathering techniques, the paper finds that policies on education are hardly based on data, hence educational policies have not been able to deliver the goal of development as data that are necessary to guide policy making on education are hardly gathered and used.

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“…However, Nigerian public secondary schools which are established and managed by government and predominantly occupied by citizens of lower socio-economic status in the society are facing problem of educational sub-standard; posing unending challenges which affects human modifications, innovations, social placement and overall management of school system (Inuwa & Yusof, 2012;Nwagwu, 2008;Fafunwa, 2004). Evidently, researchers (Ajegbelen, 2016;Ifedeli, 2015;Olaniyan & Obadara, 2008;Olawale, 2015;Ololube, 2013) declared that, there are underlying issues relating to instability in the management of schools which seriously affect the school system and governance structure as faced by many government owned schools in Nigeria. These often resulted to low operational quality (Abinboye, 2011), lack of productive teaching (Okopi, 2011) and continuous decline in productivity of many students in Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) results of the last ten years (Adamolekun, 2013;Ademola-Olateju, 2014;Adesulu, 2014;Bene, 2016;Olanrewaju, 2016).…”

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The Mediating Effect of School-Based Management on School Climate, Bureaucracy and Effectiveness in Secondary School

Yusuf

Amzat

Saidin

2019

MOJEM

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School effectiveness is a global issue among education stakeholders particularly in developing countries where difficulties in delivering quality education is widespread. However, internal and external factors in schools make school outcomes unpredictable, thus making bureaucracy an effective managerial and analytical tool which can be used to examine and direct organizational structure. This study examined the mediating effect of school-based management on school climate, bureaucracy and effectiveness in secondary schools. A quantitative research of cross-sectional survey with population of 7,533 teachers was employed. Four sets of instruments were adapted and administered on sample of 350 teachers in Nigeria secondary schools through stratified random sampling of the proportionate method. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis was employed to test the fitness of data in relation to constructs in the model and further confirm hypotheses generated for this study. The findings of revealed that underlying predictors were true measure of their respective constructs. There is a mediation effect of school-based management on bureaucracy and school effectiveness while other path analysis revealed that school-based management did not mediate between school climate and school effectiveness. This study expands theory on bureaucracy as bright side and validates the assertion that, bureaucracy is required in public schools.

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The Problems and Approaches to Educational Planning in Nigeria: A Theoretical Observation

Cited by 23 publications

References 5 publications

Environmental Volatility and Effectiveness of Educational Planning: The Nigeria Experience

Environmental Volatility and Effectiveness of Educational Planning: The Nigeria Experience

The Use of Data in Policy-Making in Nigeria’s Educational Sector: Implications for National Development

The Mediating Effect of School-Based Management on School Climate, Bureaucracy and Effectiveness in Secondary School

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