Abstract
Society depends on institutions of learning to produce well adjusted individuals who can fit properly into the environments. The education sector, like the economic sector, needs the use of human, material and financial resources to function. Institutions with Degree programmes are statutorily charged with the responsibility of producing high level manpower/human capital. Learning at the degree level could be described as effective if it results in bringing about the expected transformation in the attitudes, skills and knowledge of the recipients/students over a period of time. In fact, effective learning, especially at that level should result in producing graduates who are adequately informed, technically equipped and morally prepared to become parents, good citizens and selfless leaders. Therefore, this discussion centers on advice or measures For Effective Implementation Of Degree Program In Akwa Ibom State College Of Education Afaha Nsit
INTRODUCTION
In recent time, concerted efforts have been made on strategic planning to achieve internal efficiency in the school system for implementation of Degree Programme in the College. In fact, strategic planning, as a systematic and comprehensive analytical process that scans the internal and external environment of an institution, is more than ever before now receiving attention as a viable alternative in institutional management.
Society depends on institutions of learning to produce well adjusted individuals who can fit properly into the environments. The education sector, like the economic sector, needs the use of human, material and financial resources to function. Universities, as the highest educational institutions, are statutorily charged with the responsibility of producing high level manpower/human capital. Learning at the university level could be described as effective if it results in bringing about the expected transformation in the attitudes, skills and knowledge of the recipients/students over a period of time (Babalola, 2008). In fact, effective learning, especially at that level should result in producing graduates who are adequately informed, technically equipped and morally prepared to become parents, good citizens and selfless leaders.
ADVICE OR Measures For Effective Implementation Of Degree Program In Akwa Ibom State College Of Education Afaha Nsit
1. Strategic Planning:
As a micro economics students, it is advice that strategic planning is a detailed road map which enables an institution to efficiently and effectively manage its available resources in order to achieve its stated goals and objectives. It is reasonable, therefore, to assert truism to assert that Akwa Ibom State College of Education, Afaha Nsit without strategic planning would find it difficult to achieve stated goals and objectives in regards to her Degree Programme. Effective implementation of strategic plan would in no small measure improve the internal efficiency and invariably the effectiveness of the institution.
Strategic planning is a process through which an examination of the external and internal factors of an organization results in a set of mission, purpose, objectives, policies, plans and programmes for implementation and strategies to achieve them (Higgins,1993). Hunt (1998) elucidated that strategic planning provides a mechanism for enhancing communication between various units of an organization on its strengths and weaknesses in the pursuit of a common set of objectives. This would enhance the organization’s ability to prevent problems. In fact, Fehnel (2000) aptly noted that strategic planning is a systematic process in which an organization assesses its basic reason for being (that is, its purpose or mission), what its strengths and weaknesses are, and what opportunities and threats it might face in the immediate and foreseeable future.
Originally posted on August 31, 2021 @ 11:34 am
