Educational planning: a turning point in education and
development in Nigeria Education is the major issue in this
lecture, it is followed by national development, which is its
target, and Educational Planning which is the chief tool for
getting to the target. Education had developed in Nigeria from
1842 to 1959 without the operators consciously directing it to
national development but because of the new needs, new
aspiration and new attitudes in an independent Nigeria;
education was then directed towards national development. In the
60s all the efforts made to prepare the kind of education to
serve the interest of National development failed because there
was no effective method to do this. But in the 70s educational
planning was discovered as an effective technique for preparing
or planning an appropriate education for national development in
terms of policies, programmes, enrolment, skill acquisition and
manpower development. |Author:||J. A. Aghenta| |Series (Serial
Number)||Inaugural lecture series // Uni