ASSESSING INTELLIGENCE IMPACT ON NIGERIA EDUCATION’S POLICY: A STUDY OF ONDO STATE MINISTEY OF EDUCATION AKURE, NIGERIA
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This study examines Intelligence and Nigeria’s Educational Policy: 6-3-3-4. Intelligence plays a vital role in every sector/segment of a country policies. Intelligence is the planning and direction, collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of information for national policy and security purposes, and it covers education. The Nigeria educational policy on the other hand is a national guidelines and requirements for the effective administration, management and implementation of education policy at all tiers of government. The scope of the study is 6-3-3-4 educational structure of the education policy in Nigeria. The sampling technique used is simple systematic random sampling. The research instrument employed in the study was a structured questionnaire for primary data collection, while the secondary data sources entailthe use of books, journals, and other internet materials. The analysis was presented using the statistical tool which was aided by a frequency count and simple percentage. From the study it was deduced that educational policies are well focused but intelligence was not explored and the planning is often defective, making implementation difficult. Proper planning should be taken to make provisions for instructional materials needed for effective learning and proper implementation of educational policy in Nigeria, there should be proper monitoring and evaluation for effective implementation of educational policies, the goals and objectives set must be periodically evaluated to give room for innovations aimed at solving the emerging and unintended consequences.
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