ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANAGEMENT OF UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA AND NIGER STATES.
ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MANAGEMENT OF UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA AND NIGER STATES.
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2016-01
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ADAMU, Sanusi Gambo
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Abstract
Education has over the years become an instrument for enhancing national development the
world over. Accordingly, countries have tried to provide this social service in order to accelerate
rapid socio-economic development. In Nigeria, the Universal Basic Education was launched in
September 1999 as a strategy to meet the millennium development goals of spurring national
development. All the tiers of government have a responsibility in ensuring the success of the
programme. The local government being the third tier of government is saddled with the
responsibility of ensuring the success of the programme through its supervisory role. However, it
has been observed that management of Basic Education in Kaduna and Niger States has not
been very effective. Poor supervision and monitoring efforts, inadequate funding and inadequate
qualified teachers have been some of the major problems that impede on the capacity of local
government to manage the Universal Basic Education Programme effectively in the States. The
main objective of this study is to undertake an assessment of management of Universal Basic
Education in some selected local government areas of Kaduna and Niger States, Nigeria.
Specifically, the study intends to determine the relationship between monitoring and supervision
of schools, adequacy of funding and adequacy of qualified teachers and effective management of
UBE in some selected local government areas in Kaduna and Niger States, Nigeria. Both
primary and secondary sources of data were explored. These were presented and analysed using
both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The study revealed that monitoring and
supervision efforts have not been effective in ensuring better management of primary schools.
Similarly, the problems of inadequate funding as well as inadequate qualified teachers remained
the major issues affecting management of Universal Basic Education in the states under study.
The study found a strong correlation between adequacy of funding, adequacy of qualified staff,
effective monitoring and supervision of schools and effective management of Basic Education.
The study recommended that monitoring and supervision efforts needs to be emphasized and
adopted as a strategy of enhancing effective management of schools and teachers. More
supervisors need to be trained by the Local Government and the frequency of visit needs to be
raised. Similarly, the level of funding of Basic Education by all the tiers of government needs to
be improved, so as to meet the beach mark as stated by the UNDP of 26% budgeting allocation
to the education sector. In addition, more qualified teachers should be employed by the states in
order to cope with increasing enrolment of pupils as both Kaduna and Niger states do not meet
the minimum requirement of 80% qualified teachers as stipulated by the UBE Act of 2004.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF
PHILOSOPHY IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNEMNT AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES,
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION, AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA,
NIGERIA
Keywords
ASSESSMENT,, EFFECTIVENESS,, MANAGEMENT,, UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION,, SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS,, KADUNA,, NIGER STATES,