EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD
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Date
2025
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Kwasu International Journal of Educational Management and Leadership (KIJEMAL)
Abstract
Education is a lifelong process that helps individuals to acquire the basic knowledge, skills,
and values needed to become functional members of the society. Thus, it becomes imperative
that a nations education is not toiled with but instead be properly managed by professional
managers who are vested with the appropriate knowledge to adequately execute planned
educational policies and programmes. However, In Nigeria, educational management faces
numerous challenges that affect the overall quality of education. Thus, this paper examines
educational management in Nigeria: challenges and way forward. The concepts of
education, management and educational management were looked into. Also, the roles of
educational management were examined. The challenges of the efficacy of educational
management were equally elucidated among which are: poor funding, inequality in resource
distribution, political consideration in management selection and inadequate professional
development programme among others. The paper concludes that educational management is
a necessity for the advancement of educational programmes in Nigeria. The paper suggests
among other that stakeholders in education should support timely and affordable
professional training and retraining programmes for education managers at all levels of
education, educational managers should be recruited into educational institutions and
agencies and appointed to handle educational programmes by merit rather than connection.
Also, there is needs to re-evaluate, re-position the management of educational system n both
government and non-government institutions across Nigeria to address to enhance the
efficacy of the system.