Planning Physical Facilities in the Nigerian University System

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to carefully look at the importance of planning physical facilities in the Nigerian university system. Other areas of interest were the models for planning educational facilities which were rational, political and interactive. The findings revealed the issues and problems of planning physical facilities in the Nigerian university system. The study concluded that concerted efforts should be made at all times to ensure that facilities were planned and replanned in a manner that would make it easier for the institutions to deliver better education. It also recommended that university management should make effort to procure all the facilities required for teaching and learning at all cost from the suppliers. The university should also endeavour to carry out full assessment and evaluation of any proposed outsourcing strategy with a view to focusing on a number of critical success factors. Government should, through its policy, ensure that university administrators equally lay emphasis on the maintenance of their institutions.