The Conditions for

Success in Educational
Planning
1. Political commitment to
educational planning must
include both commitment to
establish planning offices
and commitment to support
planning activities.
2. Educational planners must
know what are their
responsibilities and rights.
Legal descriptions of
planning positions are not
sufficient.
3. Rigorous but not rigid
distinctions must be made
between political, technical
and administrative areas of
educational planning.
4. Greater attention must be
given to diffusing the power to
make political and technical
decisions so that it does not
reside entirely within one position
or a few positions at the top of
the power hierarchy.
5. Greater attention must be
given to the development of clear
educational policies and priorities
so that educational planners have
some better notion of what they
are planning for.
6. A central task of educational
planners must be the
development of clear, technical
alternatives as means of
attaining given politico-
educational aims.
7. As a corollary, an attempt
must be made to reduce the
politicization of knowledge
prevalent in many countries.
8. Greater effort must be made to
assess public opinion on the
future development and direction
of education and to elicit public
support for the making and
carrying-out of educational plans.
9. Educational
administrators must more
actively support the changes
implied in educational
planning.
10. Where considerable portions
of the educational system are
not under the direct control of
the government, greater effort
must be made to establish
mutually beneficial coordination
between government and private
and university educational
authorities.