FCT Universal Basic Education Board
The FCT UBE Board was established following the enactment of the UBE Law of 2004 and was inaugurated on the 15th November 2005 and recently reconstituted on 12th October, 2010.
The Board’s mandate is to provide quality Basic Education, which include Early Child Care, Primary, Junior Secondary and Nomadic Education, to the teeming school age population in the FCT.
Presently we have 321 ECCDE Centres with an enrolment figure of 27,036; 559 Primary Schools (including Nomadic Schools) with an enrolment figure of 214,929 pupils and 159 Junior Secondary Schools with an enrolment figure of 116,585 students.
We have 754 Caregivers, 8,321 Primary School Teachers and 5,215 teachers in the Junior Secondary Schools.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE BOARD
The Board came into existence after the enactment of the UBE law in 2004, and was formally inaugurated, on 15 November 2005, by the then Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Ahmed Nasir el- Rufai OFR. Its mandate is to provide Basic Education which includes Early Childhood, Primary, Junior Secondary and Nomadic Education.
The law which recognises the exclusive responsibilities of the State and Local Government in provision of education, also makes it mandatory and compulsory for parents to send their wards to school.
The responsibilities of all other stakeholders are clearly stated in the UBE ACT of 2004.
OUR VISION
To serve as a model and set the standard for the actualization of the Nation’s Universal Basic Education in Consonance with Global Technology dynamics.
OUR MISSION
To provide accessible qualitative basic education in partnership with all stakeholders, to all school age population in FCT and prepare the child for life skills alongside relevant ethical, moral and civil values.