Revitalising Educational Management for Higher Productivity in Colleges of Education: An Essential Ingredient to Enhance Staff Performance

The educational system of Nigeria requires qualified academic personnel who maintain flexibility and hold proper knowledge to work effectively in basic and post-basic educational settings. This review paper discusses the revitalisation of educational management in Nigeria for higher productivity in Colleges of Education as an essential ingredient for enhanced staff performance. In specific terms, it exposed the concept of management and educational management; college of education resources and the role of an educational manager; the concept of higher productivity of finance and human resources in colleges of education; human resources management in colleges of education; determining factors of educational management and productivity in colleges of education; and challenges of colleges of educational management actors. The paper concluded that managers need to be trained before they can be productive. Also, challenges are peculiar to the administration of Colleges of Education, which hinder the decision-making and attainment of organisational objectives. Thus, the following were suggested that all employees of Colleges of education, most especially academic staff should be trained on the best practice being one of the roles of educational manager, and alternative modes of funding should be discovered by educational managers at the internal operations of the colleges of education through donor agencies, philanthropists and non-government organizations to support unending insufficient funding from the government circle.