Educational Planning Division (EPD) of the Centre for Educational Planning, Economics & Research Development (CEPERD) is the society of researchers, teachers, students and practitioners focusing on educational planning in Nigeria. The EPD works collaboratively to describe, analyse and strive to redress historic and contemporary injustices associated with education, across a range of local, state and national settings. The Division research is collaborative, expansive, interdisciplinary and focused with a particular emphasis focal areas, which include teacher education at primary, secondary and higher levels, digital technologies, accessibility and inclusivity, educational technology, sociological and political dimensions of education, philosophical and psychological aspects of education, special education, assessment and evaluation, educational policy, curriculum design and development, educational management, administration and polices, teacher education and professional development, higher education, sociocultural and multicultural education, women education, inclusive education, pedagogical aspects of school subjects and environmental education. Educational Planning Division (EPD) creates a plan of action for providing quality education to students in Nigeria and Africa at large. The Division sets goals and objectives for the educational system, as well as determining how to achieve those goals best. EPD involves in decision making about what resources are needed in order to provide the best possible education for all students. The Division comprises a team of national and internationally recognised experts in national and international development, education, and national and international educational policy. It delivers world leading teaching and carries out research of global importance. OUR WORK Our research, teaching and other activities are grounded in key values and ethics related to equity, criticality, reflexivity, accountability, trust, care and inclusivity. We encompass approaches to research and teaching that are inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary. We draw from and enquire into different kinds of knowledge to understand the breadth, complexities and influences on and of education. Our research is theoretically engaged, methodologically rigorous, ethically informed, trustworthy, and critically reflexive about the use and generation of knowledge and data. Our teaching, underpinned by research, engages with policy, practice and activism. It has been improved over decades by dialogue and debates with cohorts of students who have brought acuity to the potential of education to engage with and rectify injustices. Across our work, we critically examine global, regional and local inequalities associated with the relationships between the global north and the global south, the contribution of diasporas, the processes of epistemicide, exclusion, inclusion, marginalisation, mobility and immobility. We seek to promote critical, eco-sustaining and egalitarian visions of education and development arising from the global majority. Our works include but not limited to

• CEREP works hand in hand with the federal, state and local governments of Nigeria with expertise in the formulation and analysis of educational policy to reassess past and current factors that constrain effective education policy implementation and how negatively it affects the welfare of the teacher labor market in Nigeria.
• CEREP helps addresses the bends in the educational system on the ineffective implementation engendered primarily by lack of political will, lack of continuity of programmes and corruption.
• CEREP helps inform policy decisions with empirical, nonpartisan research on how state and federal policies impact educational access, standards, rights, funding, and other facets of education as well as whether various policies are effective.