ENVIRONMENTAL VOLATILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING: THE NIGERIA EXPERIENCE

Abstract

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.