Preparing Higher Educational Administrators to Meet Global Standard: The Nigerian Factor

This paper explores the issues of dwindling standard of higher education in Nigeria. Indeed, the issue of poor standard of higher education has become a subject of public discussion in virtually every enlightened gathering. This situation has been attributed to various factors but generally, the impression has revolved around inefficiency on the administrative performance of the higher educational administrators in our institutions. In the present realities, the world is becoming a global village with the adoption of current technology and skills to create, manage, process, manipulate and organize a vast varieties of activities in the schools to be both efficient and effective in achieving results. The paper therefore examined the present situation in the schools and the travails of the education system, the expectations from the higher educational administrators and the need for these higher educational administrators to be specially trained to meet the global challenges. The major challenges to the training of the higher educational administrators were highlighted while ways to overcome such challenges provided. A number of recommendations were proffered which included that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) should be made compulsory in the training of higher educational administrators to prepare them for modern administrative excellence among others.