Impact of Poor Planning of Public Secondary Schools in Nigeria and the ways Forward

Abstract

Planning is vital to the realization of secondary school education. Educational planning is the foundation that sets the direction for implementation of educational programme. It is unfortunate that public secondary schools are poorly planned in Nigeria. This paper intends to discuss the impact of poor planning of public secondary school in Nigeria. Secondary data was used in the paper. This paper identified inadequate funding of public secondary schools, shortage of professional teachers, inadequate infrastructural facilities and over-population of students as the impact of poor planning of public secondary school education in Nigeria.  To address the problem of poor planning of secondary schools, the paper hereby recommended; effective financial planning, effective manpower planning, effective infrastructural facilities and proper forecasting of students and facilities as the ways to improve the planning and implementation of public secondary school education programme in Nigeria.