Strategic planning in the education sector in Nigeria: An appraisal

Abstract

The study investigates strategic planning in public sector in Nigeria with reference to education sector. Specifically, education is the bedrock of nation-building, because it provides the platform or pivot on which other sectors revolve. Perhaps, one of the fundamental challenges of educational sector is poor and defective strategic planning. The inadequacy or lack of strategic planning is the focus of this study. Methodologically, data were generated from secondary sources of recorded documents, while relevant literature were reviewed with based theory adopted as theoretical underpinning. Content analyses were employed to analyze data via documentary approach. The study found out that lack of strategic planning poses a problem to the educational development. It recommended holistic strategic planning involving environmental analysis, resources analysis, decision-making and control framework as a desideratum for the pivotal strengthening of the educational goals and objectives.

Keywords: Strategic planning, education sector, nation-building, developmental goal, environmental analysis.