Some aspects of educational planning

Abstract

This paper describes the processes by which the plan was developed and the outcomes of that planning process. Education was looked at mainly through its contribution to the full · development of individual ability, to greater social justice or to a better understanding of the role of individuals in society. When plans were formulated, education was looked on as part of the "overheads" of development. It was of course observed that a person's income increased as his educational level rose, but the reasoning was not usually transposed with strict logic from the 'micro-economic to the macro-economic scale. In fact thinking of the economists was dominated for a long time by a Keynesian approach which regarded material investment as the key factor in development.