Trending issues in planning strategies and sustainability of educational system in Nigeria

This paper discussed the Trending issues in planning strategies and sustainability of educational system in Nigeria. In recent times, the strategic planning process has undergone relevant modification which the management of educational institutions needs to respond rapidly the changing circumstances. The paper proposes and adopted a new dimensional open-ended approach and therefore insists in raising new and relevant issues in the educational system, the need to integrate human and cultural dimensions which school management has. The merits of this new dimensional approach have been revealed and also the challenges have been outlined. School heads may consider many possible steps in strategic planning process which includes strategic formulation, strategy implementation and strategy evaluation. It should be stated that, strategic planning is the art of creating specific institutional strategies, implementing and evaluating the results considered to be vital to the educational managers that will lead to the achievement of the desired goals. Therefore, the paper made some conclusions and recommendations based on the prevailing circumstances in the system.