Secondary school education is facing many problems such as shortage of professional teachers,inadequate instructional material, and funding, overcrowding and poor quality of educationalperformance. The problems have been linked to lack of effective planning of Secondary education as apanacea for academic excellence in the Northeast of Taraba. A survey research design was adopted forthis study, using a structured questionnaire as data collecting instrument with one hundred and sixtyrespondents. Data collected were analysed using mean score. The study revealed that inadequatefunding, inadequate data, shortage of professional planners, poor capacity development programme ofplanners,lack of planning materials, coupled with instability in the education policy and politicalupheavalsare the problem facing planning of secondary school in Taraba state. The study recommendthat government should employ expertise in the educational sector, man-power periodic training andretraining for maximum planning and implementation of educational policies, regular data generation,analysis, prompt implementation, periodic evaluation reports, and priority to funding of educationalplanning
Factors Militating Against Effective Planning of Secondary School Education in Taraba State
