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Educational Planning

• Educational planning is the process of preparing for your post-secondary education. Effective educational planning enables you to make a smooth transition from high school or military service to college or further technical education. A good educational plan will provide you and your family with a map of your future education and career goals.

• The process of making arrangements or preparations to facilitate the training, instruction or study that leads to the acquisition of skills or knowledge, or the development of reasoning and judgment.

• Educational planning implies the taking of decisions for future action with a view of Achieving pre-determined objectives through the optimum use of scarce resources there are three main elements in this definition; (1)PRE-DETERMINED OBJECTIVES (2)USE OF SCARCE RESOURCES (3)TAKING DECISIONS

• The process of making arrangements or preparations to facilitate the training, instruction or study that leads to the acquisition of skills or knowledge, or the development of reasoning and judgment.

TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

• The determination of the horizon or duration of an education plan is a must for planners Conformably, EDUCATION IN THE WIDEST SENSE AS CONCIEVED FOR PURPOSES OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, IS A SOCIAL ACTIVITY WHOSE RESULTS BECOME MEASURABLE ONLY AFTER ACONSIRDERABLE TIME SPAN.

A plan may be classified according to time horizon/duration as follows:

• 1. LONG-TERM OR PERSPECTIVE PLAN- extends from 10 to 20 or even 25 years. Educational planning has to be based on a concept of the future. The planners should envision the kind of society; the kind of political, intellectual and social leadership.

• 2. MEDIUM-TERM PLAN-usually 4-5years, is prepared against the back drop of a long-term perspective plan. It has proven operationally to be most efficient. It defines the goals and targets with greater clarity and provides a definite basis of action.

• 1. LONG-TERM OR PERSPECTIVE PLAN- extends from 10 to 20 or even 25 years. Educational planning has to be based on a concept of the future. The planners should envision the kind of society; the kind of political, intellectual and social leadership.

• 3. SHORT-TERM PLAN needs to be adopted only as an inevitable alternative to medium-term planning and on an emergency basis. The introduction of "rolling plan´ has eliminated the need for short term plan.

• 3. SHORT-TERM PLAN needs to be adopted only as an inevitable alternative to medium-term planning and on an emergency basis. The introduction of "rolling plan´ has eliminated the need for short term plan.

• 4. SINGLE-PURPOSE PLAN is an administrative operation, which is usually adopted when particular objectives like implementing a reform measure, building an institution or piloting legislation is to be achieved.

TYPES OF PLANNING ACCORDING TO FUNCTIONS

• 1. PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC • PHYSICAL PLANNING-is the planning of an area's

physical structure land use, communicating, utilities and has its origins in the regulations and control of town development,

• ECONOMIC PLANNING-is concerned more with economic structure of an area and its overall level of propriety.

• 1. PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC • PHYSICAL PLANNING-is the planning of an area's

physical structure land use, communicating, utilities and has its origins in the regulations and control of town development,

• ECONOMIC PLANNING-is concerned more with economic structure of an area and its overall level of propriety.

• 2. ALLOCATIVE PLANNING - is concern with coordination, there solution of conflicts ensuring that the existing system is ticking over efficiency through time in accordance with involving policies.

• 3. MULTI AND SINGLE OBJECTIVE PLANNING – Whatever is type or form, planning has goals and

objectives. • GOAL is an ideal and should be expressed in abstract terms;

while an objective is capable of both attainment and measurement.

• OBJECTIVE should be measurable, result oriented, specific, realistic, attain table, and time bounded

• 3. MULTI AND SINGLE OBJECTIVE PLANNING – Whatever is type or form, planning has goals and

objectives. • GOAL is an ideal and should be expressed in abstract terms;

while an objective is capable of both attainment and measurement.

• OBJECTIVE should be measurable, result oriented, specific, realistic, attain table, and time bounded

• 4. INDICATIVE AND IMPERATIVE PLANNING – INDICATIVE PLANNING - merely lays down general

guidelines and is advisory in nature.– IMPERATIVE PLANNING- involves specific directives.

NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

• Educational planning is an instrument for providing the needed coordination and direction of the different components of an educational system. It also ensures that widely accepted long term goals, such as universal primary education, are approached more objectively. It provides a realistic appraisal of the country's resources (human, on-human and institutional) which is an important factor in the successful implementation of the plan.

• Through educational planning, a country indicates its willingness to effect an orderly change or reform in its educational system by bringing into focus the short comings or needs that hit her to had been ignored or unknown and so that appropriate action be affected. Overall educational planning, either as a part of the National Development Plan or as an independent plan is characterized by

• (A) An attempt to bring a balanced development of all sectors of the educational system.

• (A) An attempt to bring a balanced development of all sectors of the educational system.

• (B) The correlation of the educational effort with the national policy for ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

• (C) An effort to coordinate the QUANTITATIVE EXPANSION necessitated by Demographic factors and social demand with the QUANTITATIVE IMPROVEMENT in content, structure, and methods

• (D) The determination to ensure that the investment in education brings good dividends in the form FULFILLMENT OF MANPOWER NEEDS, the OVER ALL DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUAL and the NATIONAL ECONOMIC, SOCIAL and CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT.

• (C) An effort to coordinate the QUANTITATIVE EXPANSION necessitated by Demographic factors and social demand with the QUANTITATIVE IMPROVEMENT in content, structure, and methods