Author(s)

Adesua Veronica Olubunmi¹, Shaibu Leonard^2*

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Educational Management, Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University,  Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

²Department of Educational Management and Business Education, Faculty of Education, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

Corresponding Author

Shaibu Leonard

ABSTRACT

The study examined managing the challenges facing effective implementation of girl child education policies in UBE schools in Ekiti state, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. A sample of 72 principals and their vice principals (administrations and academy) from the total 24 government-owned UBE schools in Ekiti state was purposively selected for the study. Challenges to Implementation of Girl Child Education Questionnaire (CIGCEQ) served as instrument for data collection. The data was analyzed with the aid of mean and standard deviation and the following results revealed: that poor completion rate of girl schooling, government/limited political will, paucity of data for policy making, implementation and evaluation, and the prevalence of inequalities in geographical as well as socio-economic status among regions of Nigeria, the problem of the supply side in respect of female teachers, limited accountability and transparency in implementing education projects in Nigeria, and lack of interest and commitment to duty by the teachers were not the challenges facing the effective implementation of girl child education policies in UBE of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The result also revealed that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) strategy, the inauguration of civil society organizations, the use of motivating technology in schools, encouragement of citizenship participation, promotion of female teachers’ by Local Education Authorities and provision of Scholarships to Girls by the government are strategies to be adopted by the school management for effective implementation of girls’ education in UBE schools of Ekiti state. The study recommended the adoption of action plan, employment and retention of qualified personnel, improved funding of girl child education to take care of effective teaching and learning, provision of reasonable incentives to teachers for effective implementation of girl child education policies in Ekiti state. 

KEYWORDS

Managing; Challenges; Effective implementation; Girl child; Education policy

CITE THIS PAPER

Adesua Veronica Olubunmi, Shaibu Leonard. Managing the challenges facing effective implementation of girl child education policies under the Ube Schools in Ekiti State. World Journal of Educational Studies. 2024, 2(3): 21-29. DOI: 10.61784/wjes3004.

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