Implementation Strategies on Universal Basic Education Policy in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper discusses the assessment of Nigeria’s Universal Basic Education Policy Implementation Strategies. A nation’s policy on education is the government's way of realizing national goals which can be achieved through education as a tool. The political and administrative inconsistencies were so much that they affected both policies and programmes in Universal Basic Education. The concept of educational policy and policy implementation was examined. The universal education goals were stated as contained in the policy statement on the national policy on education and frequent changes happening in the national of policy on education. The proposed strategies for the realisation of the goals of universal Basic Education state which include UBE shall be tuition-free, universal and compulsory where discussed. The critique of the UBE policy implementation in Nigeria discovered that lack of continuity in government in adequate funding in budgetary allocation and inadequate provision of educational services are constraints of the UBE programme in Nigeria. The paper concluded that if strategies were employed, the quality of universal basic education would highly be improved. The paper recommended that effort should be made by the three tiers of government to make education completely free at the primary and junior secondary school levels in order to encourage universal access to the education provided.