GRIN Verlag Impact of Colleges of Arabic and Islamic Studies on the Integration of Islamiyyah/Qur'anic Schools into UBE Programme in Katsina State

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Islamic Studies, grade: Junior secondary school, , language: English, abstract: This study essentially examined the Impact of Colleges of Arabic and Islamic Studies on the Integration of the Products of Islamiyyah/Qur'anic schools into the UBE programme in Katsina state. One set of questionnaire was used for collecting the required data titled "Students' Questionnaire on CAIS Impact which was designed in five point Likert scale and the responses were considered using the marking scheme and each correct response was scored 1-5 marks for 31 items in the instrument. 202 respondents were randomly selected using stratified random sampling out of 2022 students from the different strata in the six schools within Katsina Zonal Education Quality Assurance Office. The pilot testing showed the reliability coefficient of 0.720 which means that the instruments is reliable The findings revealed that there is a specific mode of admitting the products of Islamiyyah/Qur'anic schools into Colleges of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and that there is no significant relationship between the courses offered in the Islamiyyah/Qur'anic schools and the Colleges of Arabic and Islamic Studies. The findings also showed that the Colleges of Arabic and Islamic Studies played important role in the formalization of the products of Islamiyyah/Qur'anic schools into the UBE programme, it was also revealed that the Colleges of Arabic and Islamic Studies are ensuring the acquisition of appropriate levels of literacy, numeracy, manipulative, communicative and life skills, as well as ethical, moral and civic values needed for laying a solid foundation for life-long learning. The conclusion contains the summary, suggestions and recommendations as well as contributions of the study to knowledge and suggestions for further studies.