The New education curriculum for Basic Education with a priority on skills in Nigeria is set to begin in January 2025.
The Minister of Education Professor Tahir Maman announced this during a meeting with stakeholders on the Implementation of the new curriculum in Abuja, Nigeria.
The new curriculum was presented at the meeting.
He said 15 new courses have been introduced into the new curriculum to enhance the trade and skills of young Nigerian children in such a way that even when they graduate from the basic education class JSS3, they would have been ready for the job market.
Students will be exposed to everything from Primary to JSS3. Skills acquisition is no longer optional. When they finish school, they can go with at least two skills.
“It will solve problems of employment for children in Nigeria
“It will equipment students with 21st century skills. We do not expect out-of-school children anymore,” he said.
According to him, the Courses are part of the 63 courses approved by the National Council on Education (NCE) during the 68 annual meetings recently held in Abuja.
“All schools are going to implement them. There will be no exemption,” he said.
He said the new curriculum is an all-rounder as the students will taught many skills so that by the end of the day they can specialize in at least two skills, which he said is different from the former 6-3-3-4 system of education.
He said the committee will use the next three months to tidy up issues modalities for implementation which includes: teacher support, teachers’ guide, publishers, training and distribution of materials and other frameworks as well as monitoring and evaluation.
He said the committee will also commence work immediately on the curriculum for the Senior Secondary school so that by September next year the implementation would have commenced.
The Acting Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Research Development Council NERDC, Margaret Lawan listed
Some of the new Courses to include: “Basic IT, Robotics plumbing work, Tilling, Hairstyling and Makeup, GSM repair, Satellite, Solar, beekeeping, goat rearing, Building and construction” among others.
The Director of Curriculum Development, Nigerian Education Research Development Council NERDC, Garba Gandu said the curriculum is a compendium of skills that are globally competitive.
“It is the best in Africa as it is based on experiences gathered from many countries.
It encompasses STEM, Digital literacy among others,” he said.
The implementation comes 12 years after a series of deliberations on the new curriculum.
Dominica Nwabufo
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