Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) has advocated for a review of the country’s Senior Secondary School curriculum.
Executive Secretary of NERDC, Ismail Junaidu, made the call in Kano at a one-day stakeholders’ dialogue for the North-West zone.
Junaidu was represented by Director, Curriculum Development Centre, NERDC, Garba Gandu, said that the stakeholders’ dialogue was ongoing nationwide.
He said that the one being held in Kano was part of the north-west zone’s dialogue for review of senior secondary education curriculum.
Junaidu stressed the need to restructure, realign and revise the present curriculum which was introduced since 2011 to meet the current global developmental challenge.
According to Junaidu, there is the need to create opportunity for secondary school students and learners to acquire relevant entrepreneurship skills required for poverty eradication, job creation and wealth generation as well as consolidate foundation for moral and civic values.
The states in the north-west zone present included: Jigawa, Kebbi, Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto and Zamfara.
The state Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Salisu-Kiru, said that the current curriculum operating in schools needed to be revisited and reviewed to meet the current needs of the states and the country at large.
He said that his ministry would assist and partner with NERDC to achieve its desired goals and objectiv
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