*FG To Introduce New Curriculum For Secondary Schools
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Some stakeholders at the 2024 Joint Admissions Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) policy meeting on education holding in Abuja have kicked against the new minimum admission age pegged at 18 years.
After the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, made the announcement at the meeting, stakeholders across tertiary institutions in the country, resisted turning the session into a rowdy one.
The participants started grumbling, forcing the minister to pause his speech until normalcy was restored.
While reacting to the grumblings from the participants, he insisted that the law requires that their children should be in school at 18 years, having attended six years in primary school, three years in Junior Secondary School and three years in senior secondary school.
He said they have to decide to remain and work within the law or not.
The Minister noted that the meeting was to ensure that the process of admission for 2024/2024 is fair.
He said the position of the Federal Ministry of Education has not changed from any institution that does admission outside the right process, which is Central Application Process (CAP).
One of the participants who did not want to be named said: “That is not possible, how can a child finish school write WAEC and JAMB and passed and you deny him admission?”
He said it is the faulty of JAMB for allowing under aged children to write the examination.
Also, the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said on Thursday a new curriculum would be introduced for secondary schools nationwide by September 2024.
Tahir made this known at 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 noted that the exercise has been on for the past year and a stakeholders meeting will be held on August 6,2024.
“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 listed some of the challenges confronting the sector, including infrastructural deficit, unqualified teachers, obsolete curriculum, and deplorable libraries and laboratories.
It was also noted that plans were ongoing to introduce a new curriculum.
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