School-Community Partnership and Diversification of Universal Basic Education Programme in Nigeria

Abstract

Communities can play a variety of roles in the provision and management of education. In the provision of education, Community participation focused on bringing the different stakeholder’s together for problem solving and decision making that will advance the course of provision of education. This is in harmony with the FGs acknowledging the need for and calling for interested people and organization to partner with them in the provision. The paper examined the concepts of community and participation in the context of provision of education, the characteristics of | community participation in provision of education, the roles of some education keholders in ig and bilizii ity participation in the finding and administration of primary education for effective universal basic education programme, Suggest possible wavs of an all inclusive primary education in Nigeria. Education takes place most efficiently and effectively when the different groups collaborate. It is important therefore, to establish a defined pattern of partnership between schools, parents, and communities.