Factors Militating Against Effective Planning of Secondary School Education in Taraba State
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https://doi.org/10.47494/mesb.2021.11.485Keywords:
Planning, Education, Problems, School, Secondary SchoolAbstract
Secondary school education is facing many problems such as shortage of professional teachers,
inadequate instructional material, and funding, overcrowding and poor quality of educational
performance. The problems have been linked to lack of effective planning of Secondary education as a
panacea for academic excellence in the Northeast of Taraba. A survey research design was adopted for
this study, using a structured questionnaire as data collecting instrument with one hundred and sixty
respondents. Data collected were analysed using mean score. The study revealed that inadequate
funding, inadequate data, shortage of professional planners, poor capacity development programme of
planners,lack of planning materials, coupled with instability in the education policy and political
upheavalsare the problem facing planning of secondary school in Taraba state. The study recommend
that government should employ expertise in the educational sector, man-power periodic training and
retraining for maximum planning and implementation of educational policies, regular data generation,
analysis, prompt implementation, periodic evaluation reports, and priority to funding of educational
planning
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