The goal of the country’s Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) is to ensure that all children, especially those living in rural areas, have access to quality education.
They would be more enrolled and integrated into the formal education system, it said. The announcement was made by Aisha Garba, the Executive Secretary of UBEC, during a two-day management conference in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The retreat’s topic is “Repositioning UBEC For Sustainable Basic Education Delivery In Nigeria.”
Also, she brought out the fact that most children who aren’t in school live in rural areas and come from low-income families, which is a problem because economic disparity makes many vulnerable families even poorer. In order to overcome the obstacles that basic education in Nigeria is facing, she emphasized the need of more advocacy.
Garba said that UBEC has been working hard to achieve its strategic goals, which include making sure all students have access to a high-quality basic education and making sure that schools have enough resources for teachers and students.
Nevertheless, she expressed sorrow over the states’ limited ability to utilize monies from the national education purse in previous administrations.
She assured that matching funds, together with needs-based costing and targeted advocacy for counterpart funding and budget allocation, are now accessible under the current administration.
In her own words: “The forum became necessary to address such discrepancies and other challenges confronting basic education in Nigeria.
” She went on to say that states have had trouble getting their hands on matching grant funding given out at the federal level.
This meeting is solely for the benefit of the management team in order to strategize the best way to implement the Renewed Hope Agenda, a top priority of the Bola Tinubu administration, and the Minister of Education’s vision for UBEC, which is to ensure that all children, regardless of their family’s socioeconomic status or where they live, have access to a quality basic education.
She acknowledged that UBEC has been actively working to advance the basic education system, but she was disappointed that public basic schools still lacked the necessary infrastructure to raise the bar for student achievement in the classroom.
She went on to say that thousands of schools have been built and hundreds of classrooms have been renovated as part of UBEC’s and SUBEB’s many initiatives to better the basic education system.