Quality Assurance Activities in Adult and Non-Formal Education Programme in Nigeria

Abstract

The paper titled quality assurance activities in adult and non-formal education programme in Nigeria examined different concepts of quality and quality assurance. For instance, quality means efficiency in meeting goals, relevant to human and environmental conditions and needs. While quality assurance is viewed as the standard of excellence that should be in conformity to a given level of excellence which represents particular standards or specifications. The paper also discusses on the goals of quality assurance and scope of quality assurance in adult and non-formal education. The paper further discusses the issue of monitoring and evaluation for instance, monitoring is a systematic activity which aims at assessing progress, impact, and otherwise of a design programmes. While, evaluation is a set on tests to determine how far the programme reached. Three prospects of monitoring were identified these are: provision of good information, monitoring of project and programme help greatly to control costs of projects and programmes and maintain the use of good standards. The paper also discusses on data collection process collection on adult and non-formal education. Lastly the paper ended with conclusion.