Afrigather Tahir Mamman, the Minister of Training has stated the brand new curriculum for fundamental colleges will take impact nationwide beginning in January 2025. Mamman acknowledged this at a stakeholders engagement on the implementation of the curriculum on Monday in Abuja
He famous that beneath the brand new curriculum, pupils in fundamental colleges will likely be required to accumulate not less than two abilities from the fifteen new topics on commerce and abilities.
He stated personal major colleges are additionally required to undertake the brand new curriculum, and an up to date curriculum for secondary colleges needs to be prepared by September 2025.
He stated, “College students ought to have the ability to end faculty with not less than a minimal of two abilities in order that they’ll have a really productive life. The idea for the curriculum is the Nationwide Abilities Framework, and it has been permitted.
“It’s a really large mission, it impacts all colleges in Nigeria, private and non-private. Whether or not within the public sector or personal sector, all colleges are going to implement it. So that is already decided. It doesn’t require anyone’s consent or any establishment can depart from it.
“After which we need to use this faculty 12 months to set off on this, whereas concurrently the related companies with the Ministry of Training work on the senior secondary faculty curriculum alongside the identical line in order that from September to October subsequent 12 months, the senior secondary faculty could be prepared, as we’re prepared with this one, for implementation.
“Our projection is we should always have the ability to conclude on this till December in order that in January, colleges throughout the nation can now start implementation. We don’t count on complete, full implementation from January. As a result of once you roll out one thing new, there’s a number of preparation that has to happen by the colleges, buying new issues, tools, you realize, small, small issues that they may want.”
The minister famous that plans have been ongoing to make sure the lecturers are effectively geared up for the brand new curriculum.
He additionally stated the ministry would meet with stakeholders within the personal colleges on the profitable implementation of the brand new curriculum.
He stated, “There’s a want for the preparation of the school rooms and lecturers’ improvement. We’re additionally engaged on lecturers’ help and improvement for them to have the ability to implement this. So we need to use the subsequent three months for all these three phases.
“We’ll additionally do a nationwide stakeholders engagement on publicity, notably with the personal colleges. In order that’s a part of what we will likely be doing. After which lecturers’ capability, which goes to be prepared to satisfy.”
Garba Gandu, the Director of the Curriculum Growth Centre, Nigerian Instructional Analysis and Growth Council, stated all efforts to have a brand new curriculum within the final 12 years had been fruitless.
He stated, “It’s a really joyful second for Nigeria and for all of us. As a result of that is one thing that we’ve been desirous to have for the previous 12 years. It will assist practice our youngsters to be skill-oriented and to have the requisite form of abilities and coaching that’s globally aggressive. And I wager to say that this curriculum will likely be among the many finest in Africa.
“Additionally it is aligned with the STEM initiative. That’s science, expertise, engineering, arts, and arithmetic and the disruptive expertise side of it by way of digital literacy has been captured drastically right here. Which implies then that our youngsters are half and parcel of it.”
