About RSUBEB
Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board
The Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board (RSUBEB) is the government agency responsible for implementing free, compulsory, and universal basic education in Rivers State, headquartered in Port Harcourt. It oversees public primary and junior secondary schools, teacher recruitment, training, and management and infrastructure, ensuring children's right to education.
RSUBEB was established by the Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board Law 2005. This law provides free, mandatory education for school-age children across Rivers State.
The Three Components of UBE
The Universal Basic Education programme in Rivers State is delivered through three interconnected pillars:
Our Vision
A Basic Education that prepares all children to be self-reliant and have life-long education.
Our Mission
To provide opportunity for Quality Education by creating conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning in our schools.
Our Core Values
Our Policy Objectives
- To assure quality and relevance in education.
- To improve school infrastructure.
- To enhance the planning and management system.
- To mobilize resources and sustainable funding for basic education.
- Providing free, Universal Basic Education for every Nigerian child of school age.
- Developing in the entire citizenry a strong consciousness for education and a strong commitment to its vigorous promotion.
- Reducing drastically the incidence of drop-out from the formal school system.
- Ensuring the acquisition of appropriate levels of literacy, numeracy, communicative and life skills.
- Preserving and complementing the existing educational structure, bodies and agencies for the purpose of realizing the Board's mission.
- Carrying out the policy guidelines prescribed by UBEC and other relevant agencies as approved by the State Government.
Our Mandate
To promote uniform, qualitative and functional basic education in the state through:
- Programmes and Initiatives for Early Childhood Education and Development.
- Facilitation of the formal school system from the beginning of primary education to the end of junior secondary school.
- Liaison with all relevant agencies towards capturing children with special needs, including Migrant Fishermen/Farmer children, for the formal basic education programme.
- Accessing a block grant from the Federal Government to fund programmes.
- Prescribing the minimum standards for the basic education programme throughout the State in line with the National Policy on Education.
- Inquiring into and advising the State Government on the funding and orderly development of Universal Basic Education in the State.
- Ensuring that the Basic National Curricula, syllabuses and other necessary instructional materials are in use in all schools.
- Co-ordinating the implementation of UBE-related activities in collaboration with NGOs and multilateral agencies in the State.
- Establishing a basic education data bank and conducting research on basic education in the State.
- Supporting state capacity building for teachers and managers of basic education in the State.
- Mass mobilization and sensitization of the general public and entering into partnership with communities and relevant stakeholders.
- Co-ordinating and supervising teaching and learning in public primary schools in the State.
- Recruiting, appointing, promoting, and disciplining teaching and non-teaching staff.
- Posting, deploying, and transferring all staff.