Administration of Educational Psychology Programme in Nigerian Higher Institutions: Problems and the Way Forward
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Kielce: Laboratorium Wiedzy Artur Borcuch.
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Educational Psychology is one of the core course in faculty of education in Nigerian higher institutions especially in the universities. Educational Psychology is also studied as a discipline on its own at first degree level, master level and at PhD level in most universities in Nigeria and across the world. Educational Psychology programme is one designed to inculcate in the students skills of understanding the science of individual in the society. Educational Psychology programme in the Nigerian higher institutions faces a number of administrative challenges. This article is aimed to examine the problems facing the administration of Educational Psychology programme in Nigerian higher institutions. Secondary data and primary data were used to provide empirical support for the points raised in the article. The secondary data were sourced from online publication and print materials. Inadequate funding, inadequate lecturers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, corruption, strike actions and insecurity were identified as the problem facing the administration of educational psychology programme in the Nigerian higher institutions. To address the problems, the following were recommended: increase in the funding of educational psychology programme, employment of more lecturers, provision of more infrastructural facilities, provision of effective staff development programme, fight all forms of corruption, increase the salaries of academic staff and provide adequate security in all higher institutions across the country.
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Academic, Higher Education, Psychology, Programme