Educational Planning in Nigeria: Importance, Problems and way Forward
Abstract
Planning is key to the realization of education objective and programme. Education must be planned for it to realize it objectives. Planning is the foundation and pillar of educational development. It is unfortunate that as important as educational planning to the development of education that educational planning in Nigeria is not given adequate priority leading to numerous problems. This paper examined the importance, problems of educational planning. The paper identified inadequate funding, shortage of professional planners, inadequate data, corruption, political influence, inadequate planning materials, political instability, poor capacity development programme, policies instability and insecurity. To address these problems identified, the government should increase the funding of education, employ more professional planners, ensure effective data generation and distribution, fight all forms of corruption in the ministry of education, stop political influence of planners, provision of adequate planning materials, ensure political stability in the country and effective capacity development programme for planners and ensure sustainable security in the country
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