New Skill-Oriented Curriculum Set to Roll Out in January 2025

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The new curriculum includes 15 newly introduced trade subjects for basic education such as information technology, and vocational entrepreneurship skills such as building and construction, plumbing, tiling, hair styling, make-up, construction, GSM repairs, satellite and CCTV installation and maintenance and garment making.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has said the new curriculum for basic schools will be implemented nationwide, starting in January 2025 and also promised that an updated curriculum for secondary schools would be ready by September 2025.

Prof. Tahir Mamman
Prof. Tahir Mamman

This was disclosed by the Minister on Monday, October 14 in Abuja, at a stakeholders meeting on the implementation of the new curriculum, with the new curriculum set to include several skills to equip pupils for life.

He said, “And the whole idea, as I said there, is that it is our position that by the time children finish school, they should have at least two skills. Students should be able to finish school with at least a minimum of two skills so that they can have a very productive life. The basis for the curriculum is the National Skills Framework, and it has been approved.”

“It’s a very big project, it affects all schools in Nigeria, public and private. Whether in the public sector or private sector, all schools are going to implement it. So this is already determined. It doesn’t require anybody’s consent or any institution can depart from it.”

“And then we want to use this school year to set off on this, while simultaneously the relevant agencies with the Ministry of Education work on the senior secondary school curriculum along the same line so that from September to October next year, the senior secondary school can be ready, as we are ready with this one, for implementation.”

He added that plans are underway to ensure that teachers are well-prepared for this shift, with training programs already in the works. He said, “There is a need for the preparation of the classrooms and teachers’ development. We are also working on teachers’ support and development for them to be able to implement this. So we want to use the next three months for all these three stages.”

The Director of Curriculum, Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), Dr Garba Gandu, said the new curriculum is competency and digital-based, as it is also aligned with Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and (STEAM) methods. He added that all efforts to have a new curriculum in the last 12 years had been fruitless.

He said, “It’s a very happy moment for Nigeria and for all of us. Because this is something that we’ve been wanting to have for the past 12 years. This will help train our children to be skill-oriented and to have the requisite kind of skills and training that’s globally competitive. And I bet to say that this curriculum will be among the best in Africa.”

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