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Title:Universal Primary Education in Nigeria: Its Problems and Implications
Author:Csapo, Marg
Year:1983
Periodical:African Studies Review
Volume:26
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:91-106
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:compulsory education
Education and Oral Traditions
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/524612
Abstract:The Universal Primary Education (UPE) launched in Nigeria in September 1976 marked the dawn of an educational revolution with pervasive social and economic implications. The political expectations were that universal free primary education would enable the nation to overcome the hurdles caused by unbalanced educational and economic development which resulted in southern dominance and educational imbalances of urban opportunities over the rural, and the preponderance of male over female enrollment in schools. A direct result of UPE was an unparalleled rapid expansion of primary school enrollment, highlighting some basic difficulties of the UPE plan. Underestimation of enrollment, inadequate financing, unavailability of teaching staff, the implications of UPE for secondary and tertiary education and employment, as well as the problems encountered in the North, are major issues upon which hinges the success or failure of the national UPE plan. Ref., tab.
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