ABUJA, NIGERIA– The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) will begin the complete application of its 10-year Universal Basic Education (UBE) Roadmap, covering 2026 to 2035, in the very first week of October.
The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Aisha Garba, divulged this on Monday in Abuja at the opening of a two-day consultative workshop involving chairmen of the 36 State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) and UBEC directors.
The commission likewise revealed the Fundamental Education Action Strategy Management System (BEAPMS), a digital platform created to reinforce preparation, openness, monitoring and public responsibility in the application of fundamental education tasks across Nigeria.
UBEC embraces whole-school approach
Garba said the roadmap and BEAPMS form part of reforms targeted at moving UBEC interventions far from isolated projects towards what the commission refers to as a “whole school approach.”
Under the brand-new method, states will be required to recognize the comprehensive requirements of specific schools before their action plans are approved for financing.
“For any state to do restoration, you have to do a whole school approach. A whole school approach indicates you take a school and you take a look at all the gaps,” Garba stated.
She discussed that the method would avoid scenarios where a school gets a few blocks of class or furnishings while doing not have other essential facilities such as fencing, toilets and digital equipment.
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“You don’t just put in furniture, or you drop two blocks of class, and you leave since you wish to provide awards. No, you need to take in all the extensive requirements of that particular school,” she said.
According to Garba, where a school needs fencing, toilets, furnishings, computers or extra class, such needs would be considered as part of the intervention strategy.
She added that where increased enrolment creates the need for extra class, the matching requirements for toilets and other supporting centers would also be considered.
UBEC modifies matching grant formula
Garba likewise announced a revision of UBEC’s matching grant formula to offer states greater flexibility in deploying intervention funds according to their particular education needs.
She stated the previous arrangement placed considerable focus on new facilities, even in states where the more important needs involved the renovation, upkeep and enhancement of existing schools.
“The brand-new formula allows each state to take a look at their own needs. If their needs on the ground are furnishings, if their requirements on the ground is remodeling all schools to ensure that our schools now have fencing, computer systems, and furniture, then they are enabled to do that,” she stated.
The revised structure could also accommodate other priorities determined by states, consisting of enrolment materials and additional teachers where increased enrolment has placed pressure on existing centers.
Garba stated the modified formula was intended to acknowledge that the challenges dealing with basic education vary across states and that financing interventions ought to show those distinctions.
New digital platform to track UBEC projects
The commission stated BEAPMS would provide a digital system for enhancing the preparation and monitoring of fundamental education interventions while giving neighborhoods a higher role in tracking projects.
Garba said information on the quantity of money accessed by individual states would be released on UBEC’s website together with information of the tasks being carried out.
“This will also enable us to bring in the community to be part of the tracking of the jobs that we do on the ground,” she stated.
She included that the platform would make it possible for moms and dads and community members to scrutinise how UBEC funds were being utilized and assess the quality of tasks implemented in their schools.
“With that, the neighborhood can hold us responsible to the cash we have actually accessed from UBEC, and after that likewise the projects we’re doing on the ground, along with the quality of projects we’re doing,” Garba said.
According to her, BEAPMS had actually been under development for more than a month, while the chairmen of the various SUBEBs had actually been onboarded ahead of its full application.
States to establish prepare for next years
Also speaking at the workshop, the Dean of SUBEB Chairmen, Teacher Shehu Adaramaja, stated the consultation would help develop a typical instructions for fundamental education advancement across the country over the next years.
Adaramaja, who is likewise Chairman of the Kwara State SUBEB, said stakeholders would focus on strategies for expanding gain access to, enhancing quality and reinforcing basic education management systems.
“In the next 2 days, we’ll take note of all the techniques and the efforts towards the development of a roadmap for the next ten years on how to supply gain access to, provide quality service, and naturally, enhance our systems in line with our new basic education management system,” he said.
He explained that the workshop was structured as a hands-on workout, with directors of research and stats expected to add to structures that would assist the particular states’ standard education action strategies.
Adaramaja likewise kept in mind that UBEC’s intervention mandate had broadened beyond physical infrastructure to consist of other elements considered necessary for enhancing standard education shipment.
Previously, UBEC Director of Physical Preparation, Nura Ibrahim, stated the consultation would supply stakeholders with a chance to evaluate and verify the proposed 10-year roadmap, drawing on their technical know-how and experience in implementing standard education programmes across the country.
The execution of the 2026– 2035 roadmap is anticipated to mark a shift in how UBEC interventions are prepared, with higher emphasis on detailed school requirements, state-specific top priorities, digital monitoring and community involvement.