2024: EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS
I consider writing this foreword beyond mere honor done me, for two broad reasons; firstly, having spent twenty-five (25) years in the university system, Professing for over a decade now and still counting, I was tempted to rationalize that very little is left unstudied in the field of Educational Management and Policy. This text titled EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS; APPLICATION OF BASIC CONCEPTS IN ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION has proven this axiom that I considered germane by default very dogmatic and otherwise. The advent of this creative approach in this new addition to the subject, authored by Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip, an Associate Professor in Educational Management, has not only educated me and my co-travelers, who hold the same shade of opinion on the subject, but has equally through this humbled effort made us comprehend in lucid language through its logical analysis that much is yet to be covered and indeed studied in the discipline that has today become very sophisticated at a higher level of scholarship, and even much subscribed, at postgraduate level. Secondly, this in itself has exemplified the beauty of knowledge generation that cannot be pidgin- held or compartmentalized.
The Text Educational Management and Policy Analysis; Application of Basic Concepts in Administration of Higher Education is segmented into twenty-two (22) chapters and each deals with a fundamental aspect of Educational Management that is tangential to the administration of higher education. The book further dissects its anatomy in simple and comprehensive language for the reader's delight. What is of scientific interest is the gamut of relevant evidence of minute details and eyes for mechanical accuracy in the presentation of facts within the discipline under review, which is very commendable. More so, the combination of the author's ecclesiastical background further shaped the direction of thoughts with Christian charity, and ethics in the promotion of effective administration of higher education which was hitherto a deficient component now made available. This blend of background reflective on the text has shown the capacity of creating a Womuo Universale and proactive menials, men of virtue with unpolluted integrity in the management of educational enterprise rather than a cacophony of neophytes in the field who merely exhibited gaps and distortions in knowledge for which this current effort aspired and has corrected.
From a collection of the twenty two (22) chapters x-rayed and painstakingly written, the scholar addressed the conventional and innovative educational management approaches from both national and international perspectives. The thinking of this publication is to arrive at a position common to varied stakeholders whose interests on the subject are affected, a movement towards systematic planning from the angle of participatory planning, a basic step in policy design and formulation.
Generally, the text has charted a cause of action in a new educational management trajectory. It is convincing that this humble effort has provided a leeway as a policy guide to overcoming the frontal issues that are today exacerbated by leadership crises in some less developed countries of the world, as noted by the erudite scholar, Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip in his text. The evidence adduced in this edition on Educational Management is very adequate to market the contents as a credible product itself. Accordingly, I am strongly recommending this text to government bureaucrats, parents, proprietors of schools, education administrators, lecturers and students, particularly, at the tertiary level to share in the lessons therefrom, to bring about an informed and improved educational management architecture for the globe, for which Nigeria is not an exception.
