1. EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

2. Educational Planning

3. • Educational planning is the process of
preparing for your post-secondary education.
Effective educational planning enables you to
make a smooth transition from high school or
military service to college or further technical
education. A good educational plan will
provide you and your family with a map of
your future education and career goals.

4. • The process of making arrangements or
preparations to facilitate the training, instruction
or study that leads to the acquisition of skills or
knowledge, or the development of reasoning and
judgment.

5. • The process of making arrangements or
preparations to facilitate the training, instruction
or study that leads to the acquisition of skills or
knowledge, or the development of reasoning and
judgment.
• Educational planning implies the taking of decisio
ns for future action with a view of Achieving pre-
determined objectives through the optimum use
of scarce resources there are three main
elements in this definition; (1)PRE-
DETERMINED OBJECTIVES (2)USE OF SCARCE
RESOURCES (3)TAKING DECISIONS

6. TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL
PLANNING

7. • The determination of the horizon or duration
of an education plan is a must for planners
Conformably, EDUCATION IN THE WIDEST
SENSE AS CONCIEVED FOR PURPOSES OF
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, IS A SOCIAL
ACTIVITY WHOSE RESULTS BECOME
MEASURABLE ONLY AFTER ACONSIRDERABLE
TIME SPAN.

8. A plan may be classified according to
time horizon/duration as follows:

9. • 1. LONG-TERM OR PERSPECTIVE PLAN- extends
from 10 to 20 or even 25 years. Educational
planning has to be based on a concept of the
future. The planners should envision the kind of
society; the kind of political, intellectual and
social leadership.

10. • 1. LONG-TERM OR PERSPECTIVE PLAN- extends
from 10 to 20 or even 25 years. Educational
planning has to be based on a concept of the
future. The planners should envision the kind of
society; the kind of political, intellectual and
social leadership.
• 2. MEDIUM-TERM PLAN-usually 4-5years, is
prepared against the back drop of a long-term
perspective plan. It has proven operationally t
o be most efficient. It defines the goals and
targets with greater clarity and provides a
definite basis of action.

11. • 3. SHORT-TERM PLAN needs to be adopted
only as an inevitable alternative to medium-
term planning and on an emergency basis. The
introduction of "rolling plan´ has eliminated
the need for short term plan.

12. • 3. SHORT-TERM PLAN needs to be adopted
only as an inevitable alternative to medium-
term planning and on an emergency basis. The
introduction of "rolling plan´ has eliminated
the need for short term plan.
• 4. SINGLE-PURPOSE PLAN is an
administrative operation, which is usually
adopted when particular objectives like
implementing a reform measure, building
an institution or piloting legislation is to be
achieved.

13. TYPES OF PLANNING ACCORDING
TO FUNCTIONS

14. • 1. PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC
• PHYSICAL PLANNING-is the planning of an area's
physical structure land use, communicating,
utilities and has its origins in the regulations and
control of town development,
• ECONOMIC PLANNING-is concerned more with
economic structure of an area and its overall level of
propriety.

15. • 1. PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC
• PHYSICAL PLANNING-is the planning of an area's
physical structure land use, communicating,
utilities and has its origins in the regulations and
control of town development,
• ECONOMIC PLANNING-is concerned more with
economic structure of an area and its overall level of
propriety.
• 2. ALLOCATIVE PLANNING - is concern with
coordination, there solution of conflicts
ensuring that the existing system is ticking over
efficiency through time in accordance with
involving policies.

16. • 3. MULTI AND SINGLE OBJECTIVE PLANNING
– Whatever is type or form, planning has goals and
objectives.
• GOAL is an ideal and should be expressed in abstract terms;
while an objective is capable of both attainment and
measurement.
• OBJECTIVE should be measurable, result
oriented, specific, realistic, attain table, and time bounded

17. • 3. MULTI AND SINGLE OBJECTIVE PLANNING
– Whatever is type or form, planning has goals and
objectives.
• GOAL is an ideal and should be expressed in abstract terms;
while an objective is capable of both attainment and
measurement.
• OBJECTIVE should be measurable, result
oriented, specific, realistic, attain table, and time bounded
• 4. INDICATIVE AND IMPERATIVE PLANNING
– INDICATIVE PLANNING - merely lays down general
guidelines and is advisory in nature.
– IMPERATIVE PLANNING- involves specific directives.

18. NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL
PLANNING

19. • Educational planning is an instrument for prov
iding the needed coordination and direction
of the different components of an educational
system. It also ensures that widely accepted
long term goals, such as universal primary
education, are approached more
objectively. It provides a realistic appraisal
of the country's resources (human, on-human
and institutional) which is an important factor
in the successful implementation of the plan.

20. • Through educational planning, a country
indicates its willingness to effect an orderly
change or reform in its educational system by
bringing into focus the short comings or needs
that hit her to had been ignored or unknown
and so that appropriate action be affected.
Overall educational planning, either as a part
of the National Development Plan or as an
independent plan is characterized by

21. • (A) An attempt to bring a balanced
development of all sectors of the educational
system.

22. • (A) An attempt to bring a balanced
development of all sectors of the educational
system.
• (B) The correlation of the educational effort
with the national policy for ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

23. • (C) An effort to coordinate the QUANTITATIVE
EXPANSION necessitated by Demographic factors
and social demand with the QUANTITATIVE
IMPROVEMENT in content, structure, and
methods

24. • (C) An effort to coordinate the QUANTITATIVE
EXPANSION necessitated by Demographic factors
and social demand with the QUANTITATIVE
IMPROVEMENT in content, structure, and
methods
• (D) The determination to ensure that the
investment in education brings good dividends in
the form
FULFILLMENT OF MANPOWER NEEDS, the OVER
ALL DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUAL and the
NATIONAL ECONOMIC, SOCIAL and CULTURAL
DEVELOPMENT.