Al-Hikmah University Journal

The COVID-19 pandemic led the entire global world into an uncontrollable uncertainty with the educational institution not left out. The modern world is now changing quickly in many unanticipated ways and stability has given way to uncertainty, panic, and chaos. Such a time calls for unprecedented response to an unseen enemy with the capacity to render higher education useless. Higher education institutions function as the sum of independent parts that work together to achieve a common purpose, it is therefore important to critically plan towards this achievement. There is the need to putting the teaching and learning in order in term of proper planning of higher education in the new normal in other to achieve a better manpower development for economic advancement. A rational and systematic planning process will assist higher education leaders and stakeholders to determine where the institution is heading, why the institutions should go there, and the directions for getting there, including an evaluation plan.