An Appraisal of the Universal Basic Education in Nigeria

Excellence journal, 2024

This paper is a review paper that critically evaluate the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in North-central, Nigeria from 1999 to 2024. As a review paper, it depends on secondary data which were collected from different sources such as online publication and print documents. The paper conclude that Universal Basic Education (UBE) has been implemented to a moderated extent in North-Central, Nigeria. The paper identified inadequate fund, shortage of infrastructural facilities, inadequate professional teachers, insecurity, corruption, lack of political will to access intervention grant and outdated UBE act as challenges militating against implementation of the effective implementation of the Universal Basic Education programme in North-Central, Nigeria. Based on these points, the paper suggests the following measures; increment in the budgetary allocation of UBE programme, employment of more professional teachers, provision of more infrastructure facilities, improvement of supervision, provision of security in the schools, deployment of technology for the fighting of corruption, control of inflation and.

One of the major desires of every nation is to drastically reduce illiteracy especially in this modern societies. This is because education is one of the vital indicies used in the measurement and categorization of nations as developed or developing. The Universal Basic Education (UBE) Scheme was planned to bring about positive change in the educational system through quality, functional, and free education, but this dream has met bottlenecks, barriers through high enrollment with inadequate classroom space, lack of laboratories, dilapidated infrastructure, employment of unqualified teachers, lack of fund, these have among others hindered the good implementation of the programme. The article assessed the effectiveness and implementation of UBE Policy for Education Development in Nigeria by reviewing past research/literature to determine the efficacy of UBE programme in student enrollment, financing strategies, government and institutional involvement program, school facilities provision and management, and teacher involvement. Conclusion was given based on the literature reviewed. Lastly, the article added to the recommendation that, for effective management and implementation of the UBE, there is need of full participation and cooperation from the public, professionals, and the government. The government should be open to ideas and allow the free role and participation of educational specialist.

GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2015

The study is an investigation into the implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) policy in Nigeria: A case study of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The purpose of the study is to investigate the manner in which the FCT Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) is implementing the UBE policy, with a view to finding out if the policy is achieving its stated principal objective of providing qualitative, free, compulsory, universal basic education to all eligible Nigerians between the ages of six and fifteen. The study adopted the exploratory survey method and had a sample of 228 respondents randomly selected from staff of the FCT UBEB, teaching/non-teaching staff of public primary and junior secondary schools in the FCT. A 13-item open and close-ended questionnaire was used in obtaining primary data, which was supplemented with secondary data. Data were analyzed using the simple percentage statistical method, while the theoretical framework of analysis adopted for the stu...

A Critical Analysis of Universal Basic Education on its Implementation so far, 2013

This paper attempts to give a general overview of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Scheme in Nigeria. It ranges from the purpose of its establishment, its objective, the framework for its operation, its implementation so far and the challenges the scheme is currently facing. The paper suggests the way forward for the Universal Basic Education Scheme in Nigeria. In this regard, a lot of contributions were made by quite a number of academics which were reviewed by the writer. The main purpose of the establishment of the scheme as captured in schemes’ document was to enable individuals to live a meaningful and fulfilling lives, contribute to the development of the society, derive maximum social, economic and cultural benefits from the society and discharge their civic obligations competently. Meanwhile, in addition to funding issues, the paper highlighted inadequate sensitization strategies as impediments to the proper implementation of the scheme. This was followed lastly by critiquing based on personal conviction of the writer as to the UBE scheme in Nigeria.

2022

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The Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme could not have been introduced at a better time than now that the nation is in dire need of all round National Development. The major objective of the UBE programme is the provision of free, universal and compulsory basic education for every Nigerian child aged 6—15 years. However, for the Universal Basic Education programme to be truly free and universal, efforts must be made to check those factors that are known to have hindered the success of such programmes in the past. This paper specifically considered the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) so far-.its success and problems. Relevant recommendations are therefore proffered. Abstract-The Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme could not have been introduced at a better time than now that the nation is in dire need of all round National Development. The major objective of the UBE programme is the provision of free, universal and compulsory basic education for every Nigerian child aged 6—15 years. However, for the Universal Basic Education programme to be truly free and universal, efforts must be made to check those factors that are known to have hindered the success of such programmes in the past. This paper specifically considered the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) so far-.its success and problems. Relevant recommendations are therefore proffered.

This study centred on Evaluation of Universal Basic Education Programme on Educational Development in Nigeria: A Study of Selected Primary Schools in Aku, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area, Enugu State. The decision of the Federal and State Governments to leave the responsibility of managing primary education to the local government council brought about the down turn of the standard and quality of primary education as classrooms built for the UPE intake began to collapse, and could not be rehabilitated. The pupils' enrolment and attendance started to decline. Instructional materials and equipment became scarce in the schools. The broad objective of this study is to examine the relationship between universal basic education and educational development in Nigeria. The specific objectives of this study are; to assess the rate at which universal basic education programme has contributed to educational development in Nigeria, ascertain the extent the implementation of the universal basic education programme has gone in educational development in Nigeria among others. Survey design was adopted in this study. The population of the study is 50. The entire population was used as the sample size since it is not up to or above hundred. Data for this study were collected through the use of questionnaire to illicit response from the respondents. The data collected were analysed using Chi-Square. Some of the findings of the study showed that there is strong relationship between universal basic education programme and educational development in Nigeria, the rate at which universal basic education programme has contributed to educational development in Nigeria is high and implementation of universal basic education programme has gone to a very large extent in educational development in

ABSTRACT Taking into consideration the factors that led to the introduction of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme such as rectifying the existing distortions in the basic education sub-sector of the educational system, reducing drastically the incidence of drop-out from the formal school system, ensuring the acquisition of appropriate levels of literacy and many more; this has made the general populace to be keen about the implementation of the UBE programme with rapt attention in the country because Education is said to be a dynamic instrument of social change which can be used to develop a nations total resources. The Universal Basic Education (UBE) is an ambitious educational programme, which was initiated and launched by the government and the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to eradicate illiteracy, ignorance and poverty as well as to accelerate national development. The slow pace of the implementation of the programme in Kogi State and Nigeria at large is a source of concern to all citizenry and this has made the researcher to go into researches to appraise the Implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in Kogi State to ascertain if there are constraints to the programme implementation success, not only that, lot of scholars have written one or more articles, some in textbooks, journals and magazines to appraise the implementation programme of UBE. In this research work, survey, documentary sources and some oral questions were used in appraising the implementation programme of UBE in Kogi State. Ttest statistical method was used for analysis based on the hypotheses underlying the study, research questions were advanced for the investigation. The major findings after the analyses and interpretations of data collected from the respondents shows that female respondents were more, and there were more respondents’ with second degrees and with experiences in their career and from their responses, it was clear that implementation of Universal Basic Education can not be successful outside human and material resources. Some suggestions and recommendations were made for the implementation and improvement of Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme in Nigeria, with particular reference to Kogi State.

The paper explored Universal Basic Education, UBE implementation issues in its systemic administration and management of basic schools in Nigeria. On a more specific note, it discusses: the roles of Universal Basic Education at federal and State government levels; beneficiaries of UBE; existing implementation issues of UBE; and other Basic Issues termed unique UBE implementation Programme. All these put together may work against innovative ideas that existed with the UBE programme as stipulated in the Basic Education Act of 2004. The paper concluded and recommended the following among others, the actual statistics of out-of-school children should be obtained and balanced provision of education resources to rehabilitate them should be done by the commission, and UBE teacher's capacity building boost should be revisited to train many of them to acquire knowledge regarding UBE operations in addition to their existing academic qualifications.

IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSRJRME), 2014

This study was set to assess the level of readiness of primary schools in Birnin Kebbi local government area of Kebbi state-Nigeria, in terms of Personnel and infrastructure, in the implementation of the universal basic education programme of the Federal government. The study adopted a descriptive research design. A sample of thirty (30) primary schools was randomly drawn from the population of a hundred and four (104) Primary schools located in the Local Government Area using stratified random sampling techniques (15 public and 15 private primary schools). Five (5) research questions and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study, while the main instrument designed for data collection was a Checklist or Inventory. The statistical analyses were done using simple statistics such as Mean, Percentages and t-test at 0.05 levels of significance. The analysis revealed a high level of readiness in terms of personnel, but infrastructurally, there have been a gross inadequacy in the provision. As such, it was therefore recommended among other things that, there is need for government at all levels, including the private sector and other donor agencies as well as all stake holders in the educational sector to provide the necessary personnel and basic infrastructure to facilitate meaningful implementation.