IMPLICATION OF SCHOOL FEEDING POLICY AND GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT IN BAUCHI STATE, 2015-2024

Haruna Muhammad Haruna
Volume 5 Issue 2

Abstract

The study assessed government school feeding policy on school enrollment in Bauchi metropolis, Bauchi state. School feeding policy in Nigeria is a tool for enhancing school enrollment among school children. It continues to play significant roles in enhancing the level of school enrolment in Bauchi state. However, School Feeding Policy as an intervention to education by the federal government of Nigeria is grossly underfunded in Bauchi state to influence school enrolment. Similarly, the school feeding policy has limited coverage in the state as thousands school children have not been motivated to enroll in school. Therefore, the study explores the implication of school feeding policy on students’ enrollment as well as the influence of school feeding policy on school enrolment in Bauchi metropolis. The study used System theory to guide the research assumption. Equally, the research used qualitative design in which semi structured interview was employed to collect information from the respondents. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 4 informants for the interview. The data from the interview were thematically content analyzed. The results indicates that school enrollments in Bauchi metropolis increase gradually as adoption of School Feeding police have led to increase enrollments in some schools due to its consistency. The study signifies that School Feeding Policy has impacted positively in Bauchi as enrolment increased significantly over a period of a year. Thus, the study recommends that the financiers of the school feeding programme should ensure that enough funds are provided in time to give schools’ management enough time to purchase enough food stuffs in time, so that this does not only help increase enrolment but also improve on attendance and retention rates. The government to employ more teachers to counteract understaffing situation in these schools. Keywords: School, Feeding, Enrolment, Bauchi Programme

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