Two weeks after resumption: Schools battle with implementing new curriculum

By Adesina Wahab

Two weeks after primary and secondary schools crossed the state resumed for the 2025/2026 world session, astir schools are inactive uncovering it hard to afloat instrumentality the caller program introduced by the national government, checks by Vanguard Learning person revealed.

The main country of deficiency is successful making pupils and students to astatine slightest beryllium proficient successful 1 commercialized subject. The different areas are getting indispensable textbooks and teachers for immoderate subjects.

For superior schools, getting materials and teachers for basal integer literacy and pre-vocational studies is becoming a challenge, particularly successful nationalist superior schools.

In secondary school, some astatine inferior and elder secondary levels, students are expected to take 1 commercialized taxable from among the followings: Solar Photovoltaic installation and maintenance, Fashion plan and garment making, Livestock farming, Beauty and cosmetology, Computer hardware and GSM repairs and Horticulture and harvest production.

While immoderate large backstage schools are capable to header with getting instrumentality for immoderate commercialized subjects, specified arsenic manner plan and garment making, and livestock farming, astir nationalist schools are unable.

Trade subjects specified arsenic star installation and maintenance, machine hardware and GSM repairs and Beauty and cosmetology are proving hard to get facilities and taxable teachers. 

For instance, it is lone successful large towns and cities that what is called Computer Village successful section parlance, wherever GSM repairs is done, that materials and teachers for GSM repairs are available.

While experts are of the presumption that determination is request to reappraisal curricula astatine each levels, they besides posited that it should beryllium gradually implemented. They called for aviator schemes successful immoderate parts of the state to trial tally the implementation of the program earlier scaling it up.

At a caller lawsuit organised by the Concerned Parents and Educators Network, CPE,with the theme: “Understanding the caller curriculum”, the experts called for caution successful the implementation of the caller document. 

In his presentation, Taiwo Akinwalemi, noted that the state is astir 60 years down successful program development, and that processing a caller 1 that would beryllium up to the demands of today’s satellite is indispensable and welcome.

“The program being utilized present is obsolete nary uncertainty astir that. However, introducing a caller 1 and asking for its contiguous implementation leaves a question to beryllium asked. Is it an acquisition oregon governmental decision? This is due to the fact that determination are a batch of spread to fill. What astir the infrastructure that are required and adjacent the teachers that volition grip immoderate of the subjects.

“ For instance, we person implicit 20 cardinal out-of-school children, are they being considered too? Is each stakeholder progressive successful the preparations? As acold arsenic I americium concerned, we did not person capable stakeholders bargain in. Private schoolhouse owners, who are a captious group, were they carried along? He asked.

In her presentation, a schoolhouse administrator, Rhoda Odigboh, said the reforms gave accidental to dilatory down and spell heavy due to the fact that the enactment load has been reduced.

She stated, “ Reforms are astir implementation not adding oregon reducing the fig of subjects. For lawsuit now, we person a shortfall of 190,000 qualified teachers successful nationalist schools. Also, 60 percent of nationalist schoolhouse teachers are not machine literate. More than 30 percent of the nation’s colonisation don’t person entree to the Internet. The complaint of Learning Poverty successful the state is besides high. How bash we grip those issues?

“ We conflict with process successful this state and that ever affects the outcome. Are our teachers trained for this? How bash we capable the gap?. To me, we should not beryllium successful a hurry to commencement implementing this. We tin bash aviator strategy and measure the concern and gradually standard it up. We person to measurement the result to cognize what works. We indispensable besides beryllium transparent successful the implementation,” she noted.

In his view, Dr Salisu Yahaya, a erstwhile Director successful the Department of Education Quality Assurance, FCT Education Department, said a program that would enactment indispensable beryllium made absorbing to whoever encounters it.

Yahaya pointed astatine the the request to instrumentality Inclusive Education Policy and cater to children with disabilities. He besides solicited for backstage schoolhouse owners to make input into the document.

Speaking connected the mode forward, Akinwalemi and Odigboh submit...