Nigeria’s New Curriculum And The Test of Our Classrooms
2025-09-22 | Admin
The Federal Ministry of Education has announced what it calls a “future-ready” curriculum, one that stretches from the first years of primary school all the way to senior secondary and technical colleges. On paper, it looks comprehensive and hopeful. Primary pupils will no longer drown under overloaded timetables, history has been restored to its rightful place, and technical colleges are being asked to rethink their offerings. At the university level, the Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) have already begun to reshape programmes. But where the reform speaks loudest and where it will be tested most severely, I believe, is in the secondary school. For the first time, every child in JSS1 will be required to take at least one trade subject. The choices are not abstract. They are tactile, tangible, relevant, and urgent, like solar installation, garment making, livestock farming, cosmetology, GSM and computer repair, and horticulture.
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