Stem Programme Administration in Public Primary Schools in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria: Problems and Way Forward

This paper examines the administration of STEM programme in federal capital Territory, Abuja: problems and way forward. Secondary data from print and online publication in the areas of STEM programme in Nigeria and across the World were consulted and used to provide empirical support for the various points raised in the course of discussion in the paper. The paper identified inadequate funding, inadequate professional teachers (STEM Teachers), inadequate infrastructural facilities, shortage of instructional materials, inadequate of lack of access to internet facilities, inadequate in-service training, poor renumeration, corruption, poor supervision and over-population as the problems militating against effective administration of STEM programme in FCT public primary schools. For the effective administration of STEM education in public primary schools in FCT, the paper hereby recommends that the Federal Capital Territory Administration should increase the funding of public primary schools in the Territory and more priorities should be given to the development of STEM programme in the Territory. More infrastructural facilities like classrooms, libraries, laboratories, ICT centers, stable electricity, internet facilities, water and offices should be provided in the public primary schools across the territory to aid teaching and learning of STEM programme etc.