SCHOOL COUNSELOR AND PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER PERCEPTION OF THE ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT OF UBE AMONG STUDENT
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Education is very important for the development of individuals and the society. In realization of the role which education plays in national development, the government of Nigeria has introduced various educational policies and programmes with great expectation that the felt socio-economic and political needs of the citizenry would be met by the government. This problem led to the introduction of Universal Primary Education (UPE) in September 1976 by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
The programme was introduced with the intention of taking care of the educational demands of Nigerians. The UPE scheme is predicated on the assumption that every Nigeria, child has an alienable right to a minimum of 7 years of education if he is to function effectively as a citizen of Nigeria, irrespective of gender or religious background.
Fafunwa (1986) in an assessment of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme remarked that 10 years after the introduction of U.P.E the educational outcome showed that the national objectives were not fully realized due to certain national problems such as finance, insufficient competent teachers and shortage of classrooms.
In what seems to be a response to the agitation for a more functional and qualitative educational systems the federal government of Nigeria introduce Universal Basic Education (UBE) in 1999.UBE in Nigeria is a positive reaction to the Jonterm declaration of education for all by the year 2000. It also signifies its commitment to the total eradication of literacy. It sees education in its broadest sense of close articulation of the formal, non formal and informal approaches as an instrument for the awakening and development of human potentials. The implementation document on U.B.E (2000) explains the meaning and scope of U.B.E as the foundation for sustainable lifelong learning for the acquisition of numeracy skills. In Nigerian context, basic education includes primary, junior secondary, nomadic education as well as adult education. By implication a child will spend 6 years in primary school, 3 years in junior Secondary school. The education programme shall be directed towards the acquisition of functional literacy, numeracy and life-skill especially for adults.
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