An Investigation Into the Implementation of the Universal Basic Education (Ube) Policy in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) (original) (raw)

2015, GLOBAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED, MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

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...

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