Abstract
Secondary school education is facing many problems such as shortage of professional teachers,inadequate instructional material, and funding, overcrowding and poor quality of educationalperformance. The problems have been linked to lack of effective planning of Secondary education as apanacea for academic excellence in the Northeast of Taraba. A survey research design was adopted forthis study, using a structured questionnaire as data collecting instrument with one hundred and sixtyrespondents. Data collected were analysed using mean score. The study revealed that inadequatefunding, inadequate data, shortage of professional planners, poor capacity development programme ofplanners,lack of planning materials, coupled with instability in the education policy and politicalupheavalsare the problem facing planning of secondary school in Taraba state. The study recommendthat government should employ expertise in the educational sector, man-power periodic training andretraining for maximum planning and implementation of educational policies, regular data generation,analysis, prompt implementation, periodic evaluation reports, and priority to funding of educationalplanning
Highlights
The responsibility for administering the education sector in Nigeria is shared among the federal, state and local governments
The result collected from table one to table eight revealed that inadequate funding, inadequate data, inadequate professional planners, political instability, policies instability, corruption, lack of effective capacity programme of planners, shortage of planning materials are the problems affecting planning of secondary schools education in Taraba state
This findings is in line with the discovery of Ogunode (2018) whose result showed that: 100% of the respondent agreed that there are challenges facing the planning of basic Education in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, Nigeria and the challenges facing the planning of basic education in FCT includes; inadequate funding of planning, inadequate planning tools, inadequate educational planners, poor capacity of educational planners, political influences, political instability and lack of reliable data/information
Summary
The responsibility for administering the education sector in Nigeria is shared among the federal, state and local governments. In the country’s constitution, education is on the concurrent list, but the Federal Government is empowered to regulate all its sectors, engage in policy formation and ensure quality control. The provisions of the constitution allow each tier of government to focus its responsibilities mainly on a sector of education. The Federal Government is involved directly in tertiary education. The states take care of secondary education, while the local governments handle primary education. Despite this arrangement, the Federal Government is expected to support the state and local governments in counterpart funding to enhance the quality of education in the country (NEEDS,2014)
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