EDUCATIONAL PLANNING IN NIGERIA: PROBLEMS AND WAY FORWARD

Abstract

In Nigeria, educational planning has faced numerous challenges that has affected the development of education because educational planning is vital to the realization of the education objectives.. In this paper, the presenter will at the concept of education and educational planning. The paper will also explore the various factors that have contributed to these challenges and propose potential solutions to address them. The paper is a seminal paper and it’ depends on secondary data. The secondary data was collected from both online and print resources. Specifically, the seminal paper identified  poor funding, inadequate data for planning, constraints of skilled personnel, political problem, constraints of inadequate planning tools, constraints of implementation, administrative bottleneck, inadequate training, poor forecasting, gap between planners and the implementers, lack of planning tools and facilities and corruption as challenges militating against educational planning in Nigeria. Additionally, the paper recommends increment in the funding of educational planning, generation of current educational data, employment of adequate professional education planners, provision of adequate planning tools, provision of constant training for educational planning in the ministries of education, deployment of technology to curtain corruption in educational administration, acquisition of modern forecasting equipment,