Academic Planning Department of NINLAN is responsible for the following duties:

• Coordinates Institute – wide survey to update data on key matters concerning the Institute.
• Liaises with the other departments, for the purposes of updating data concerning students and staff population growth, attrition, graduation, drop – out rate and retirements.
• Helps the ED in meeting the information requests of the key stakeholders such as Ministry of Education, Council, Alumni and NUC.
• Responsible to the Executive Director for the day – to – day administration of the Academic Planning Department.
• Analysing academic planning for Master plan development in the Institute.
• Producing annual reports and publications in liaison with the Registry.
• Supervises the compilation of the Strategic Plan of the Institute.
• Analysing the Institute annual implementation budget and their financial prospects and problems.
• Analysing the actual resource utilization costs in the Institute.
• Evaluation of the annual institutional performance against the Strategic Plan.
• Helping the Institute in curricula revision and/or review activities as well as ensuring that the Institute complies with procedures and guidelines on new programme development.
• Collection and storage of publications of statistical nature from other Institutes.
• Coordinating publication of the Institute’s records, statistics, research reports etc
• Member/Secretary of some Institute Committees /Boards.
• Using collected data for making projections and advising the Institute on areas of direct concern and alert.
• Participating in the production and or revision of long term, medium term and short- term academic briefs and /or plans and modelling of such plans against reality and Institute goals.
• Preparation of research material papers on the basis of data supplies from feedback information.
• Assisting in coordinating publication of the Institute records, statistics, and research reports.
• Supply of information on higher education to government departments, institutions and researchers.
• Servicing of relevant Committees and Sub-committees as may be appointed or directed.
• Facilitate in storage and retrieval of relevant institutional data to approved researchers, especially on academic staff workload , areas of specialization, Institute’s research output.
• Using feedback data for generating information that can be used for evaluating the internal operations of the Institute against approved criteria.
• Analysis and interpretation of Institute’s annual statistics on enrolments, staff training and turnover etc; and passing such information on for institutional based research.
• Maintenance of regular data bank for the Institute.
• Internal evaluation of the performance status of the Institute on all the NUC – approved funding parameters and other guidelines.
• Performs annual updating, projection, analysis and interpretation of data for the planning and preparation of the Institute budget and the subsequent resource allocation within the ambient of the approved budget.
• Involved in the collection of relevant data on changing trends on Institute activities such as enrolments, staff training and turnover, and passing such data on for institution- based research for improvement purposes.
• Documenting and storing information on the academic programmes of the Institute.
• Compilation and categorization of teaching and research equipment. ,
• Responsible for liaising with the various units to collect and update data.
• Designing and sharing of a questionnaire.
• Assist in preliminary data cleaning and analysis.
• Supervise the work of data entry clerk.