The Federal Government on Monday said the review of the curriculum for senior secondary schools is nearing completion.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, made this known during the 2025 International Conference of the African Curriculum Association hosted by the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council in Abuja.
Recall that the Federal Ministry of Education on Sunday announced the unveiling of the curriculum for basic and technical education.
The implementation of the new curriculum described as “future ready” curriculum is expected to kick off soon.
Alausa, who was represented at the event by the Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad, said the new curriculum was streamlined to meet the skills demand of the 21st century.
“The review and streamlining of the Basic Education Curriculum for Primary 1 – 6 and JSS 1-3 had been completed and approved while that of the Senior Secondary School is nearing completion soonest.
“The review of these curricula is based on best practices and design approach following the requisite stages, criteria and involving broad-spectrum of critical stakeholders. The framework, structure and content of the curricula are based on competency and outcome approach and leveraged on the thematic, spiral-cyclical model. It contains effective pedagogies, resources, and guideline on the use and acquisition of 21st century skills.
“The content of the curricula covers new areas pertaining to digital literacy, robotics and artificial intelligent, new technologies and subject based skills, 21st century skills that are transferrable and issues of values, national heritage and effective citizenship. The newly designed curricula are learner centred implementable and devoid of content overload. One thing we want to achieve in the curriculum reform process is to ensure content learnability and coverage thereby improving learning outcomes across all subjects.
“Thus, the curricula and subjects offerings have been scaled down drastically to align with global standards and endanger effective learning at the various level of primary and senior secondary education.
“The newly revised curricula are to be introduce soonest into the school system for effective implementation,” he said.
