Two Decades of Universal Basic Education Programme in Nigeria.1999-2019: UBE Implementation, Achievement, Challenges and Suggested solutions
Keywords:
decade, education, program, Nigeria
Abstract
In September 1999, the UBE was officially launched and passed into law in 2004 as an implementation tool of the government initiative to achieve the Millennium Development Goals in achieving the EFA. Researchers has agreed that the Universal Primary Education (UPE) in Nigeria was also recognized as the predecessor of the present UBE Scheme, which has been directed towards the possibility of increasing the number of attendance or enrollment in schools, as well as the provision of an excellent opportunity to correct the current imbalance. The major objective and aim 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 thereore will consider the implementation of Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria -.its achievement, challenges and make some suggestion. The paper hereby made some recommendations that the government should provide adequate fund for the UBE programme.
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2020-03-13
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Ogunode Niyi. J 2020. Two Decades of Universal Basic Education Programme in Nigeria.1999-2019: UBE Implementation, Achievement, Challenges and Suggested solutions. International Journal on Integrated Education. 2, 6 (Mar. 2020), 179-186. DOI:https://doi.org/10.17605/ijie.v2i6.150.
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