Tommorrow i'll post the date of the punch newspaper where it was explained. Moreover, 9-3-4 makes more sense to the education sector.

@delarontus: I'll be pleased if you can follow up on this. If what you're saying is true, then it's possible that a mistake was made by one of the newspapers.

yeah..u guys are getting me confused now.

I have the information but i'll have to type the text out because its the newspaper i have not the weblink.

Government hasn't abolished 6-3-3-4 system - NERDC [The Punch, Wednesday, September 28, 2005, page 9]

The Nigerian Educational Research and Develpment Council on Tuesday put to rest the speculation generated in the media last week that the Federal Government had abolished 6-3-3-4 system of education and introduced a nine-year of compulsory education.

Last week, a Nigerian newspaper [not The Punch], reported that the Federal Government had scrapped the 6-3-3-4 educational policy and replaced it with the 9-3-4 system of education.

But addressing journalists in Lagos, the NERDC Executive Secretary, Prof. Godswill Obioma, said the government had not scrapped the 6-3-3-4 system nor abolished primary education in the country.

He said the 6-3-3-4 system was entrenched in the national policy on education and unless the policy was revised, it remained effective.

He explained that to achieve the objective of the Universal Basic Education, which included Education-For-All, the Federal Governement had made it mandatory for every child to have compulsory and uninterrupted education for the first nine years.

"This new arrangement means that a child must attend the six-year primary and the three-year junior secondary school," he said.

He explained that any child that concluded the first nine years of education, depending on his or her academic qualification, could proceed to the senior secondary or, go for technical education.

By the new arrangement, the NERDC boss stated that by law, parents who refused to send their children to school for the nine-year compulsory education risked being jailed.

He also stated that the council had been mandated to prepare an appropriate curriculum for the actualisation of the nine-year basic education system.

I hope this puts to rest all the arguments.

i c. But talking of parents who refuse to send their children to school risk being jailed, what if they don't have the money? what becomes of them?

Universal basic education/Education for all is a free programme i guess.

if it is, then it's cool.

not really because some don't let their kids go to school because the kids have to work to earn some money for the family.

i tink the rate of illitracy in dis country is getting worse and its starting rite from our leaders i tink we need to assign prayer warriors to save them b4 its to late

hmmm goodguy ure just too good, i tink dey want dose set of parents to steal and i tink it will be best to start from the leaders cos if dey shld steal from dem dey will have enof money to send them to any kind of skul dose so called leaders are just so sick.

It's 9-3-4 and they're not increasing the number of years only joining the primary and junior secondary education. this is so that the minimum no of years a child can spend in school would be 9 years. I think it is a good idea and hope they can implement it. Hopefully, with the jail term awaiting any defaulting parent and the planned free lunch at schools, we can hope for a high literacy rate in some years to come.

i feel they should set up vocational or technical schools for some kids who may not have the will/funds to continue with secondary and university education.

This is the dumbest idea ever, the minister of Education should be shot!, there are more pressing issues in Education.
how can kids aged 6-15 be in the same school, i bet the rate of bullying would increase.

@ zebudaya. yup, i agree wif u that the rate of bullying will increase. infact BIG TYM

zebudaya:

This is the dumbest idea ever, the minister of Education should be shot!, there are more pressing issues in Education.
how can kids aged 6-15 be in the same school, i bet the rate of bullying would increase.

Did you read this part? :-

He explained that to achieve the objective of the Universal Basic Education, which included Education-For-All, the Federal Governement had made it mandatory for every child to have compulsory and uninterrupted education for the first nine years.

"This new arrangement means that a child must attend the six-year primary and the three-year junior secondary school," he said.

He explained that any child that concluded the first nine years of education, depending on his or her academic qualification, could proceed to the senior secondary or, go for technical education.

A child doesn't have to be aged 15yrs and still be in the same school.  The issue here is that they must complete a minimum of 9yrs of primary and junior education, before proceeding to the senior level; even if it means spending each of the 9yrs in 9 different schools.

We already have existing primary and secondary schools, are you saying the government would build new "middle schools" instead of making the students stay longer in Primary school before going on to high school?

We are already doing 9 years before going to SS1, I guess OBJ's government should work on more pressing issues

Hey guys, lets slow down! I really do not know what to believe, but if it's been modified to 9-3-4, then I dont see any reason for the 'hues and cries'

It just simply means that the minimum qualification in Nigeria will be the Junior sec. sch. cert as against the pry. sch. leaving cert. as it is now.

But the 6-9-3 configuration is just condemnable!

dearie:

It just simply means that the minimum qualification in Nigeria will be the Junior sec. sch. cert as against the pry. sch. leaving cert. as it is now.

Exactly!

The "minimum" qualification in Nigeria has always been the JSCE.

i propose free education for all! thank heavens, ive finished secondary school though!! wouldve been a disaster, haba, spending 9 years in primary/junior sec school? thats just nuts! with all that suffer suffer. why are we never moving forward when the rest of the world is? goes to show the mentality of those baboons that are ruling our contry!

these people are only after the benefit they will get, what was wrong with the former method?

^^ might be coz of the massive failure at the W.A.E.C level, i think students are less prepared for these exams with just six years.a welcomed ideal though.

Please, I don't understand new system of education in my country NIGERIA is it 6-9-3 or 9-3-4 that replaced 6-3-3-4

is this still on, or is it currently in the back burner.

dn

It's a step towards revamping our decaying educational system. I want to believe some experts in educational policy analysis did this and I hope it yields good results.
Our educational system needs quick resurgence.
Schools must be interesting again.