Republic of the Philippines

NUEVA ECIJA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Graduate School
General Tinio St., Campus
Cabanatuan City

HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING

Educational planning was regarded as a "essential" for newly independent

nations in order for them to go ahead rapidly and systematically with human resource
development. There was a long educational planning during the pre-Spanish era and the
more than four centuries when the Philippines was a possession of Spain, albeit it was
not obvious enough to compare with current educational planning operations.

Centralization and decentralization are the two modes of operation in any

organization, as defined by educational planning. Centralization is a system in which
judgment abilities are centralized and people determine the majority of corporate
choices. The transfer of power and responsibility for public tasks from the central
government is referred to as decentralization.