A Dynamic Programming Model of Educational Planning with Application to Nigeria

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Title:	A Dynamic Programming Model of Educational Planning with Application to Nigeria
Author:	Onimode, Bade
Year:	1973
Periodical:	Eastern Africa Economic Review
Volume:	5
Issue:	2
Period:	December
Pages:	53-70
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	educational planning Education and Oral Traditions
Abstract:	Systematic educational and manpower planning in Nigeria is a recent phenomenon. The first efforts in this direction were the Harbison Study and the Ashby Commission Report. The next attempt was made by S. Bowles who applied an optimization cost-benefit model to Northern Nigerian data during 1964/71. This study demonstrates that one part of his conclusion is excessively conservative and derives largely from both the nature of the objective function and the constraints structure of his model. In this light this study shows that an optimization model of educational and manpower planning for Nigeria as a whole (which is applicable to regional data) can be developed to yield non-decreasing enrolments for all levels of the educational system. This model is designed to solve a cost-minimization problem. As a partial equilibrium analysis it analyses the optimal allocation of resources within the educational system and not between the educational and economic systems. Notes, tables.