EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

This paper critically looked at the impact of information communication technology on educational management in Nigerian’ schools. This paper among other things looked at the concept of educational management, information communication technology and impact of information communication technology on educational management in schools in Nigeria. Role theory was employed in the study. The paper is a position that depends on secondary data to establish its facts. The secondary data were collected from government documents, print resources and online publication. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were used to narrow the literature to the theme of the study. The paper concluded that information communication technology has impacted positively on Nigerian educational management. Specifically, the paper discovered that ICT has aided the school administration, teaching and learning processes and has improved teachers’ job performance and students’ academic performance in schools. Based on this findings, the paper recommends more funding in education to enable school administrators to procure more ICT infrastructure facilities in schools. Government should ensure constant training and retraining programme for teachers and schools administrators on ICT skills. Government and private institutions should subsidize ICT facilities for teachers and students to enable them access the facilities for the implementation of teaching and learning in schools.