Benue State University, Makurdi

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION OF UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES, PROSPECTS AND SUGGESTIONS

Uga Margaret Oluwole, PhD
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue-Nigeria

Fanan Abigail Gire
Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue-Nigeria

Abstract

Considering the valuable roles and contributions of education to an individual, social and national development, the fact remains that effective management and administration of education by competent leaders should be a national concern. This paper examines the educational management and administration of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria, by highlighting some of the challenges in the aspect of poor planning, inadequate funding, the cart before the horse syndrome, inadequate teachers’ empowerment, poor school plant management and administration. To achieve the successful management and administration of UBE, efforts must be made to improve on planning and projection, adequate funding, empowerment of teachers, proper management and administration of UBE programme. Efforts must be made by relevant stakeholders in education to make management and administration of UBE more responsive to teachers by way of holistic empowerment of teachers and devising ways of combating the enormous challenges to pave way for the successful management and administration of UBE in Nigeria.

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