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GEP Girls Education Programme
GPE Global Partnership for Education
GTP Government Transformation Programme
HOTS Higher Order Thinking Skills
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IDP International Development Partners
IDPs Internally Displaced Persons
ILO International Labor Organization
INGO International Non-Governmental Organization
IoP Inequality of Opportunity
IPs Implementing Partners
IQTE Islamiyya Quranic and Tsangaya Education
ISESCO Islamic Education, Science and Culture Organization
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency
JSS Junior Secondary School
KICA Korea International Cooperation Agency
KP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
LFPS Low Fee Private School
LGEA Local government Education Authority
LINUS Literacy and Numeracy Programme
MDGs Millennium Development Goals
MENA Middle East and North Africa
MICS 2015 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey
MLA Monitoring of Learning Achievements
MoE Ministry of Education
MoFEPT Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MYS Mean Years of Schooling
NALABE National Assessment of Learning Achievements in Basic Education
NAR Net Attendance Ratio
NBS National Bureau of Statistics
NCE Nigeria Certificate in Education
NCERD National Center for Education Research
NCHRD National Center for Human Resources Development
NCNE National Commission on Nomadic Education
NDHS Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey
NEC National Education Census
NECO National Examination Council
NEDS Nigeria Education Data Survey
NEI Northern Education Initiative
NEP National Education Policy
NER Net Enrolment Ratio
NGO Non-Governmental Organization
NIPEP Nigeria Partnership for Education Project
NKRA National Key Results Areas
NPC National Population Commission
NPE National Policy on Education
OLS Ordinary Least Square
OOSC Out-of-School Children