6-9-3 Universal Basic Education (UBE) Scheme To Replace 6-3-3-4

@delarontus: I'll be pleased if you can follow up on this.  If what you're saying is true, then it's possible that a mistake was made by one of the newspapers.

I have the information but i'll have to type the text out because its the newspaper i have not the weblink.

Government hasn't abolished 6-3-3-4 system - NERDC [The Punch, Wednesday, September 28, 2005, page 9]

The Nigerian Educational Research and Develpment Council on Tuesday put to rest the speculation generated in the media last week that the Federal Government had abolished 6-3-3-4 system of education and introduced a nine-year of compulsory education.

Last week, a Nigerian newspaper [not The Punch], reported that the Federal Government had scrapped the 6-3-3-4 educational policy and replaced it with the 9-3-4 system of education.

But addressing journalists in Lagos, the NERDC Executive Secretary, Prof. Godswill Obioma, said the government had not scrapped the 6-3-3-4 system nor abolished primary education in the country.

He said the 6-3-3-4 system was entrenched in the national policy on education and unless the policy was revised, it remained effective.

He explained that to achieve the objective of the Universal Basic Education, which included Education-For-All, the Federal Governement had made it mandatory for every child to have compulsory and uninterrupted education for the first nine years.

"This new arrangement means that a child must attend the six-year primary and the three-year junior secondary school," he said.

He explained that any child that concluded the first nine years of education, depending on his or her academic qualification, could proceed to the senior secondary or, go for technical education.

By the new arrangement, the NERDC boss stated that by law, parents who refused to send their children to school for the nine-year compulsory education risked being jailed.

He also stated that the council had been mandated to prepare an appropriate curriculum for the actualisation of the nine-year basic education system.

I hope this puts to rest all the arguments.

Universal basic education/Education for all is a free programme i guess.

not really because some don't let their kids go to  school because the kids have to work to earn some money for the family.

hmmm goodguy ure just too good, i tink dey want  dose set of parents to steal and i tink it will be best to start from the leaders cos if dey shld steal from dem dey will have enof money to send them to any kind of skul dose so called leaders are just so sick.

This is the dumbest idea ever, the minister of Education should be shot!, there are more pressing issues in Education.
how can kids aged 6-15 be in the same school, i bet the rate of bullying would increase.

Did you read this part? :-


A child doesn't have to be aged 15yrs and still be in the same school.  The issue here is that they must complete a minimum of 9yrs of primary and junior education, before proceeding to the senior level; even if it means spending each of the 9yrs in 9 different schools.

Hey guys, lets slow down! I really do not know what to believe, but if it's been modified to 9-3-4, then I dont see any reason for the 'hues and cries'

It just simply means that the minimum qualification in Nigeria will be the Junior sec. sch. cert as against the pry. sch. leaving cert. as it is now.

But the 6-9-3 configuration is just condemnable!

The "minimum" qualification in Nigeria has always been the JSCE.

these people are only after the benefit they will get, what was wrong with the former method?