STRATEGIES FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF ADULT EDUCATION AGENCY IN NIGER STATE

Abstract

Adult education changes the social and psychological minds of adults more than any
other profession. Adult education instills hope in adults and liberates them from their
prejudice of seeing themselves as not being capable to learn.The main purpose of this
paper was to investigate the strategies for effective management and Administration of
Adult Education Agency in Niger-State. The paper revealed that forManagement and
Administration in adult education agency in Niger State are those management
practices that are already in existence and the way they are applicable in the
agency.These include: planning, implementation, organizing, directing, staffing,
supervising and budgeting. The findings further revealed among others that experts in
adult education should be involved in planning the programmes.The findings also
revealed that management function in adult education agency should include: planning,
organizing, directing, and controlling; The state agency should provide adequate
infrastructural facilities in adult education centres. The paper revealed that in staff
retention strategies, the state agency should organize workshops seminars and
conference regularly for coordinators, facilitators and other staff members.The paper
therefor recommended that government should provide allowances for the supervisors,
the state agency for Adult and Non-Formal Education, Niger should
strategies for effective management of adult education within the state. Moreover, the
evaluation strategies for management of adult education agency, the programme
monitoring teams should usually visit adult education personnel regularly to evaluate
their performances.