Educational Administration in Nigeria: Challenges and the Ways forward.
Keywords:
Educational Administration, Basic, challenges, Secondary, higher education
Abstract
This paper examined the challenges preventing effective educational administration in Nigeria. The paper used secondary data sourced through online and print materials. Inadequate funding, shortage of professional teachers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, corruption, insecurity, weak administrators, lack of data, policy instability, strike actions and brain-drain were identified as the challenges preventing effective educational administration in Nigeria. To address these administrative challenges, the paper made the following suggestions: government should increase the funding of education, employ more professional teachers, provide adequate infrastructural facilities, eliminate all forms of corruption in the educational system, work towards the provision of educational data regularly, ensure adequate security in all educational institutions, improve the welfare packages of teachers, appoint people with educational background as ministers and heads of educational institutions and ensure stability of educational policies and programmes.
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2. Abdulrahman-Yusuf M. (undated) School Administration in Nigeria: Bringing The Past To The Fore
3. Ahmodu, O. L & Sofoluwe, A. O. (2018) Combating Corruption in Nigerian Universities through Treasury Single Account Policy. Research Journal of Business and Economic Management
4. Ajayi T, Shofoyeke AD (2003). School discipline, teacher’s attitude to work and ethics of the teaching profession. In T.E. Ajayi and J.
5. Ahaotu G, N. & Ogunode N, J. (2021) Challenges Facing Administrators of Public Higher Institutions in Nigeria and the Ways Forward. Central Asian Journal of Literature, Philosophy and Culture, Vol 2 (2),p:
6. Ayorinde, D. (1986): Mass Failure in Public Examinations (edited) (causes and problems); Proceedings of the National Conference on Mass Failure in Public Examinations 21st-25th April
7. Ajayi T, Shofoyeke A (2003). School Discipline, Teachers Attitude and Ethics of the Teaching Profession. Paper presented at the workshop on skills improvement programme for performance of teachers in Ondo State, Nigeria.
8. Belo,. F ,A .(2016). Gender-Related Variables and Time Management as Determinants of Secondary School Principals’ Managerial Effectiveness in Southwest Nigeria. Unpublished Ph.D Thesis. EkitizState University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
9. Central Bank of Nigeria (2010). Statistical Bulletin. Abuja, Nigeria: Federal Government Press.
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11. Durosaro DO (2008). Code of ethic in the teaching profession. In DO
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22. National Open University of Nigeria (2011) Organisational theory in Education. Abuja, Nigeria
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28. Ogunode N, J. Ahaotu G, N. & Ayisa C, T,. (2021) Correlating Factors Affecting the Implementation of the Academic Brief of Federal Universities in North-East Nigeria. Electronic Research Journal of Behavioural Sciences, Volume 4 (2021), p:143-145
29. Ogunode, J. N. (2020). Administration of Primary School Education in Nigeria: Challenges and the Ways forward. Intercathedra 4(45), 197–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.17306/J.INTERCATHEDRA.2020.00108
30. Ogunode Niyi Jacob, Ahmed L, Gregory,. B ,Abubakar L (2021) Administration Of Public Educational Institutions In Nigeria: Problem And Suggestion. European Scholar Journal (ESJ), Vol. 1 No. 3,P: 6-13
31. Obe O (2009). Issues of funding education for standards: Counseling perspectives. J. Educ. Res. Dev. 493:164-170.
32. Odukoya, J. A., Bowale, E., and Okunlola, S. (2018). Formulation and Implementation of Educational Policies in Nigeria. African Educational Research Journal , 6(1): 1-4.
33. Olorunsola E.O & Belo F.A (2018) Administrative challenges and principals’ managerial effectiveness in Ogun State public secondary schools. International Journal of Educational Administration and Policy Studies Vol.10(5), pp. 48-55,
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36. Saint W, Hartnet TA, Strassner E (2003). Higher education in Nigeria: a status report. Higher education policy. 16 :259-281.
37. Thisday (2018) UNESCO: Boko Haram Killed 2,300 Teachers, Destroyed 1,000 Schools. Retrieved 22 November 2020 from https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/11/22/ unesco-bokoharamkilled-2300-teachers-destroyed- 1000-schools/
38. Thewhistler (2020) Education Secretary Arraigned For Diverting School Feeding Fund In Sokoto. https://thewhistler.ng/education-secretary-arraigned-for-diverting-school feeding-fund-in-sokoto/
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2021-08-14
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Jacob, O. N., Terhemba, A., & Ndubuisi, G. (2021). Educational Administration in Nigeria: Challenges and the Ways forward. Central Asian Journal of Theoretical and Applied Science, 2(8), 11-24. Retrieved from https://cajotas.centralasianstudies.org/index.php/CAJOTAS/article/view/217
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