OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN IN NIGERIA: MAKING EXTANT LEGISLATIONS COUNT

Abstract

As statistics suggest, the existence of legislations does not appear to have made any significant stride in halting the increase in the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. Children being in-school instead of out-of-school is important to Nigeria because studies seem to suggest that there is a relationship between education and national development. There are several models put forward to explain the relationship between education and national development.  One of the models is the Linear model theory.  Within this Model there are three groups of social scientists namely the structural fundamentalist, human capitalist theories and the modernization theorist. The human capitalist theory and to a certain extent modernist theory constitutes the framework for building cases to show that education enhances national development. Thus an educated populace is likely to lead an increase GDP.  A slight increase in the percentage of the educated will likely result in a slight increase in GDP.