Influence Of School On Wheel Programme Of Nomadic Education On Pastoralists’ Children School Enrolment And Retention In Gombe State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study determined the influence of School on Wheel Programme of Nomadic Education on Pastoralists’ Children School Enrolment and Retention in Gombe State, Nigeria. Two (2) research objectives guided the study. Two (2) research questions were answered and Two (2) hypotheses tested. The population of this study was 80 nomadic primary schools. Out of which 60 were purposively sample, among which were thirty (30), conventional nomadic primary school and thirty (30), nomadic primary school on wheel programme were identified within and outside the boundary of Gombe State. The study adopted ex-post-facto research design. School pro-forma was adopted and used for data collection. The data collected for the study was analyzed using mean, standard deviation and t-test statistic was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05, level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that; nomadic school on wheel programme had significant influence on the enrolment  rate of pastoralists children in Gombe State with a t-value of -4.059 and a p- value of 0.002, school on wheel programme had no significant influence on the retention rate of pastoralists children with t-value of -1.07, p-value 0.294, > 0.05 Based on the findings of this study it was concluded that school on wheel programme have positive influence on pastoralists’ children’s enrollment and retention rate in nomadic primary school education.  The study recommended that the federal government need to provide effective mobile schools with the required facilities to motivate pupils, parents and teachers in other to enhance pupil’s retention rate in nomadic primary school education