EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

As part of its statutory responsibilities, the Universal Basic Education Cormission (UBEC) had carried out the National Personnel Audits (NPA) in 2006 and 2010 respectively. The one being reported here is the third in the series which took place in 2018. The 2006 exercise covered only public primary schools, while that of 2010 included public junior secondary schools (JSS). The major limitation of these two exercises was the fact that they turned in incomplete basic education data. Thus, while the first exercise did not cover junior secondary schools, both exercises exduded private basic education schools nationwide. It is incontestable that the private sector also plays

an important role in the provision of basic education and to neglect that component in any study will always give an incomplete picture. The current report covers both private

and public basic education institutions respectively, herein lies its strength.

The objectives of the 2018 National Personnel Audit were to:

i) obtain comprehensive and reliable data on children of school-going-age enrolled in basic education institutions in Nigeria (EOCDE, Primary and Junior Secondary Schools);

ii) obtain the numbers, qualifications and other information of teaching and nen-teaching staff in basic education institutions in Nigeria;

iii) determine the existing basic education personnel in State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) and Local Govemment Education Authorities (LGEAS);

iv) obtain the indices required to determine Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of basic education sub-sector in Nigeria and generate data for tracking the relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); and

v) feed the acquired Basic Education sub-sector data into the National databank by strengthening Basic Education Management Information System (BEMIS) for effective national and global reporting, in line with Nigeria’s Education Management Information System (NEMIS) policy.