AN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION (UBE) PROGRAMME IN KOGI STATE
AN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION (UBE) PROGRAMME IN KOGI STATE
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2009-08
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ILIYASU, MEDINAT
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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
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL IN
PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER DEGREE
(M.ED) CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN SOCIAL STUDIES.
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA. NIGERIA.
AUGUST, 2009
Keywords
APPRAISAL,, IMPLEMENTATION,, UNIVERSAL,, BASIC EDUCATION,, KOGI STATE