The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, stated on Thursday that a new curriculum would be implemented by September 2024 for secondary schools across the country.
Tahir made this known during the ongoing 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board policy meeting in Abuja.
“We are working hard to ensure that a new curriculum is introduced for secondary schools by September,” Mamman said.
Mamman mentioned that a stakeholders meeting is scheduled for August 6, 2024, and that the exercise has been ongoing for the past year.
“It is our plan that by September, this programme will be implemented in all schools, public and private,” the minister said.
Recently, the National Senior Secondary School Education Commission decried the deplorable state of senior secondary schools in the country and called for collaboration to overcome some of the challenges bedevilling the secondary level of education in the country.
The commission enumerated a number of challenges affecting the industry, such as a lack of adequate infrastructure, underqualified teachers, obsolete curricula, and deplorable labs and libraries.
It was also mentioned that plans for a new curriculum were still ongoing.
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