EDUCATION POLICIES OF EARLY CHILD EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES OF IMPLEMENTATION AND THE WAYS FORWARD

Abstract

This article discussed the challenges facing the implementation of the early child education policies in Nigeria. The article used secondary data. The article identified: inadequate funding, poor formulation of policies, lack of political will, and inadequate professional teachers. Others are inadequate infrastructural facilities, political instability, unstable educational policies, institutional corruption and poor supervision as the challenges preventing the implementation of the early child educational policies in Nigeria. To address these challenges, this study put the following suggestions forward to help improve the implementation of early child education policies in Nigeria; adequate funding of early child education, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, employment of professional teachers, ensure stable educational policies, ensure political stability, fight institutional corruption in the ministries and political officeholders should develop positive attitudes towards implementation of educational policies in Nigeria and finally, the government should advance the supervision of the early child education programme.