PROJECTING ENROLMENT FOR UNIVERSAL BASIC EDUCATION IN EDO STATE

Primary education is the foundation for other levels of education, thus enrolment at that level is very crucial if the policy of Universal Basic Education (UBE) will be successful and data on enrolment must be accurate, available and accessible. Consequently the paper projected enrolment for UBE programme in Edo State. Data on enrolment was collected through checklist from the relevant bodies. Data were analyzed with Econometric formulae. The results showed that the actual enrolment in 2006/07 academic session was 463,627 (56.6%) with 43.4 percent pupils not in school. In the year 2020 the enrolment will be 1,351,651 with corresponding ideal number of 33,791 and 45055 teachers and facilities. Thus, the existing staff and facility gap needs to be filled