NAVIGATING ON NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL PLANS BETWEEN 1990 AND 2020: EDUCATOR'S VIEW OF SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES IN NIGERIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM
Keywords:
Educational Planning, Scarcity of Educational Resources, Poor Demographical Statistics, Yawning Gap Between Educational Policy and Implementation, Challenges of Clear and Purposeful Educational Policy, Political Instability, Pressure Groups, Personnel, Constraints of Planning Tools, ImplementationAbstract
This paper is navigating on Nigerian educational plans since Between1990 and 2020: Educators views on significant challenges in Nigerian Education System. Abia State University Uturu and University of Port Harcourt River State are among public tertiary education institutions in Nigeria. Therefore, the two universities are chosen for extraction of population and sample of this study. The population of this study is 16,000 which comprised 9,000 males and 7,000 female students from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture and University of Port Harcourt River state respectively. Stratified random sampling technique was used to obtain 26 male respondents in three departments from Abia State University Uturu and 28 female students in three departments from University of Port Harcourt River State. This gave a sample size of 162. Descriptive survey research design was used for this study. One research question and one hypothesis guided this study. Instrument used for data collection was researcher developed questionnaire “titled, navigating on Nigerian educational plans since Beteween 1990 and 2020: Educator's views of significant challenges in Nigerian Education System" was used, with four rating scale of strongly agree, agree, dis agree and strongly disagree. The instrument was validated by two specialists. Cronbach alpha statistics was used to determine the reliability coefficient of this study at 0.78 and 0.97, which shows that the instrument is reliable to be used for this study. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data while t- test of independent was used to test the hypothesis. The finding from this study reveals that there are varied challenges of educational planning in Nigeria. These challenges include: Inadequate funding, lack of accurate statistical data on the needs of education in Nigeria, insecurity among others. It was recommended for this study that government should fund educational planning and policy making bodies in Nigeria. This will reduce financial bottlenecks in educational planning in Nigeria. Accurate data should be generated from dilapidated educational institutions and damaged equipment in Nigeria education institutions. This would reduce off hand estimation s used in calculation of the needs and problems of education institutions in Nigeria among others.
