From UPE to UBE:An Analysis on the Policies for Improving Basic Education in Nigeria

It embarked on Universal Primary Education(UPE) Program in Nigeria since the mid-1970s,then started to go ahead with Universal Basic Education (UBE) in 1999. The implementation of the national basic education policy has undergone the management system from centralization to decentralization,and the educational input from unity to diversification. By working hard for more than 30 years,the universal basic education has improved greatly on the one hand,but faced with some problems which the African countries have done in common,such as serious shortage of basic education input,regional unbalance,gender disparity and differences between urban and rural areas. All these problems make it difficult for Nigeria to realize the universal basic education program.