RESTRUCTURING EDUCATION IN NIGERIA THROUGH EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT APPROACH

Patience .O. Edoimioya

Department of General Studies

Edo State Institute of Technology and Management Usen, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

E-mail: pedoimioya@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Many countries have a national curriculum and these often leave little scope for schools to decide their own educational aims. Institutions may be left with the residual task of interpreting external imperatives rather than determining aims on the basis of their own assessment of student need. Except adequate and the right type of education be provided for the Nigerian populace, especially the youths and children, unemployment will always remain the bedrock of Nigeria’s turn around to backwardness. This paper addresses the fact that for the Nigeria education to impact on the society particularly the employers of labour, Educational Management Development must be encouraged i.e. Empowering educational institutions to enrich the already existing curriculum by providing regulatory bodies.