Evaluation of Components of Adult Education On The Inmates' Welfare In Agodi Prison Yard, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
The purpose of this study is to evaluate components of adult education programmes on the inmates welfare in Agodi prison yard, Ibadan Nigeria. Survey research was utilized in order to carry-out the study. The respondents were divided into two groups: one hundred and seventy (170) inmates (awaiting trials and convicts) and twenty-five (25) facilitators were sampled. Four research questions were generated from the literature review. Questionnaire on adult education programmes in the prison and responses elicited from respondents were numerically, quantified, tabulated and analyzed using the Likert scale. The analysis showed that: basic literacy, vocational, computer and religious education programmes were the components/ types of adult education programmes provided for the prison inmates; there was inadequate welfare and vocational materials; non-existence of educational unit in the prison; coupled with unqualified resource persons or facilitator to impart the knowledge; and government were not funding adult education programmes adequately in the prison. Based on the findings, it is recommended that effort should be made towards providing adequate funds from all tiers of government (federal, state, local government) and non-governmental agencies for adult education programmes in the prison. It is high time educational unit is separated from welfare department to ensure effective delivery of educational programmes in the prison and, specially trained facilitators should be recruited whose salaries will be comparable with those in public institutions in order to realize the potency of adult education programmes in the prison. Keywords : Adult education programmes, Prison inmates, convicts, awaiting trial, crime.
Financing Adult and Non-Formal Education in Nigeria.
The purpose of this study is to determine how adult and non formal education is financed in Nigeria; and to examine areas or forms of and the problems of financing adult and non-formal education in Nigeria. Survey research was used in order to carry out the study. Three hundred and twenty five (325) respondents from government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private individuals were sampled. Three research questions were generated from the literature review, questionnaire on financing adult and non formal education, and the responses elicited from respondents were numerically quantified, tabulated and analysed using the Likert Scale. The analysis showed that: governments were not funding adult and non-formal education adequately in Nigeria; funds for adult and non-formal education was obtained from other sources; adult literacy, distance, labour and prison education received fund from the government; there was a political will on the part of government to fund adult and non formal education; and some problems were confronting financing adult and nonformal education in Nigeria. Based on the findings, it is recommended that effort should be made by the policy makers to fund adult and non formal education for the benefit of the masses; and other sources of fund should be explored in order to realize the potency of adult and non-formal education.
Good elementary education
Abstract The aim of this study is to identify good elementary education standards that would contribute to the elimination of inequalities in the implementations regarding the utilization -and making it utilized- of the right to elemetary education. Being a descriptive one, this study attempted to identify the definitions and explanations of the right to education in universal documents by a review of literature. The study then attempted to explain the drawbacks concerning the protection and the utilization of the right to education. The study proposes some standards such as accessibility, content, operation so as to eliminate the obstacles hindering the utilization of the right to elementary education.