EDUCATIONAL PLANNING IN NIGERIA DURING COVID-19: PROBLEMS AND WAY FORWARD

Abstract

Educational planning is the foundation of education. The development of education depend on effective planning. Educational planning is a continuous process and it covers all aspects of education. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted the activities of educational planning in Nigeria. This article is aimed to discuss how COVID-19 clock down affected the planning of education in Nigeria. The researchers used secondary date sourced from both print materials and online to support some of the points raised in the article. The COVID-19 lockdown affected the educational planning in Nigeria in the following ways: suspension of implementation of planned programme, suspension of school planning, suspension of lesson planning at school level and suspension of data collection for educational planning. To prepare for the future and to ensure that even in the mist of pandemic planning of education continues, this article hereby suggests the following: Educational planners in all ministries and agencies of education should be train on how to use ICT facilities to carry out planning functions and ICT facilities should be provided for all the educational planners in the country e.tc.