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Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by dre11(m): 10:21am On May 03, 2023
Curriculum In Nigerian Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks Present-Day Development – UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has called for a review of Nigeria’s educational curriculum to meet present-day realities, saying the present curriculum is outdated and overloaded.

The UNESCO director of the International Bureau of Education (IBE), Ydo Yao, made the call at a capacity development training workshop for officials of the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Tuesday.

Mr Yao said to address the education crisis, there was a need for action in making curriculum relevant to ensure quality in education and that values, knowledge and skills thrived.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, he said the curriculum was a central and irreplaceable component of any educational policy, which is also pivotal in transforming education.

“You know, we used to say that curriculum is for education, while a constitution is for a democracy. It means the curriculum is the heart of education. So, when you talk about education, you are talking about content, programmes and learning,” Mr Yao explained.

“So, if you want to transform education, and you don’t transform what is at the core of it, which is the learning, content and the programmes, your transformation has no meaning.”

Mr Yao described the curriculum as overloaded, outdated and short of present-day development, hence the need for review. He said the training was put in place to strengthen the capacities of specialists and officials in the ministry on eight thematic modules.

Meanwhile, the minister of state for education, Goodluck Opiah, says steps have been taken to rejig the curriculum.

Mr Opiah said, ”We recognise the fundamental role of curriculum in the drive for the attainment of globally agreed goals and country-specific aspirations. It remains the singular instrument capable of transforming the human capital base of a nation for effective contribution to nation-building and development.”

The minister added, “Thus, in setting our education targets as articulated in the Ministerial Strategic Plan (MSP) (2019 to 2022) for the education sector, curriculum and policy matters were identified and prioritised.”

https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/03/curriculum-nigerian-schools-outdated-overloaded-lacks-present-day-development-unesco

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Natbrowny: 10:53am On May 03, 2023
Gbam, Gbammer Gbammest
We've been saying this, them think say we be hater.

Nigerian Education standard no follow at all. It's obsolete and not even encouraging.

Primary schools nowadays are thrash places where praise and worship and Quranic recitations has taken over national anthem and other hygiene checks and practices.

Higher institutions where lecturers no fit control projectors amd will be too proud too learn. Curriculum is rubbish promax.

Agric graduates dnt knw differences between broilers and noilers or ewedu leaves n mango leaves.
Geography graduates no sabi clay n sandy soil.
Naija students still following their forefathers in discriminating between unis, polys and colleges of education.

Unis dey do college of education courses now. Rendering all structures useless

La. Cram, la pour. Graduate, collect certificate with zero thinking skills.THE STREETS TEACHES MORE THAN SCHOOL NOWADAYS.

P. S
This and Nigerian constitution should be amended every 10 years to ACCOMMODATE FRESH BRAINS

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by 4tomandchi: 10:53am On May 03, 2023
Thank God someone is finally waking up to this reality. Nigerian school system is the most useless in the world aside Engineering, Medicine and other Medical related courses all other ones are useless I repeat they're useless.

Imagine a third class graduate in Nigeria bagging first class in the UK.

The system has failed so many people Nigerians are naturally gifted with a little push we can achieve great things.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by AnyanwuSilas: 10:53am On May 03, 2023
2 days ago, 40 human beings were killed in the Zoo called country, nobody is talking about it, it didn't make front page on nairaland here, most MSM didn't carry the news,

40 Hausa people killed by Fulani militias, that's normal and no call for alarm.

But if criminals kill 2 people in South East then it will make front page with hundreds of comments.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by MrBiGGEST(m): 10:53am On May 03, 2023
Some school courses sef, are useless
In the country .
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by eliyke(m): 10:53am On May 03, 2023
D grasshopper nd rabbit wey we draw back then,we no use am do anything,we even buy live rabbit 4 our hungry teachers den cry cry cry

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Maxcollins042(m): 10:54am On May 03, 2023
Nothing in Nigeria meets today's realities.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by inforesource: 10:54am On May 03, 2023
True. In fact Nigerian schools are on auto pilot, no pilot, only passengers who decide to turn at will and where pockets are.

The education minister is a portfolio of Non existing arm in direct policy implementation. Zero vision and direction. I remember when I got admission in LASU, Anthony campus, Lagos, my first day in school was my last day. What a waste of destinies.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Babysho(m): 10:54am On May 03, 2023
The first thing we must change is to introduce real Nigerian history into our curriculum and make it the language that kids speak. We need to churn out Nigerian graduates that are politically conscious like there was a war going on.

It's been a while I've met a group of youths dissecting political information where you even learn new things from them. All of them na Tiktok and Nyash.

Let our kids/youths understand that whatever engineering or doctorate degree you get will be useless if the political environment is against you. All our true political talents are docile because they didn't let the history of Nkurumah or Che Guevara inspire them as kids. Instead na McPherson constitution them put for their heads.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Nobody: 10:54am On May 03, 2023
Just like APC
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by stevebond007(m): 10:55am On May 03, 2023
Yes ooo, wetin concern us wiv - Diagram of a grasshopper.
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by datola: 10:55am On May 03, 2023
Truly overloaded with irrelevances

Primary 5 pupils are loaded with so many subjects and their bags like a PhD student.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Charsso77: 10:55am On May 03, 2023
Welcome development
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by SultanOfAbia: 10:55am On May 03, 2023
Till this day i have not seen the usefulness of finding x or y
All those nonesense algebra i never use am once for my life
All those hydroclorophosiphiate jargoons wey i bin cram that year, i never use am once for my life angry

Una just stress my brain with useless subjects instead of teaching us

1. How to develop income
2. Debt and real estate
3. Networking
4. How to start a business
5. How to Save Money
6. How to Plan for your Future
7. IT Technology A.I integration

These are the type of things school should teach young asparisnts that will make them transform society once the reach university

Not to go study further maths, algebra
Find x and y wahala, only to end up selling goat meat by the road..

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by tsmith(f): 10:56am On May 03, 2023
dre11:
Curriculum In Nigerian Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks Present-Day Development – UNESCO



https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/03/curriculum-nigerian-schools-outdated-overloaded-lacks-present-day-development-unesco

I have been screaming this to no end.

Imagine Short hand still been taught as part of Business studies? in this time and age of coding!!! How is shorthand PBTD relevant to solving today's issues? I tire for nigeria, Poor students

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by othermen: 10:56am On May 03, 2023
At the tertiary level, I have always thought that current or recent published articles should be used in creating course contents. I hope whatever shift, incorporates the obsolescence that AI is revolutionizing.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by drizslim(m): 10:57am On May 03, 2023
They are still drawing and labeling cockroaches in Lai Mohammed Village School

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Aforxzy(f): 10:57am On May 03, 2023
Very true. The teachers and school curriculum need constant trainings and reviews.


Mr Yao described the curriculum as overloaded, outdated and short of present-day development, hence the need for review.
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by pikechukwu6(m): 10:57am On May 03, 2023
angry
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Femisol(m): 10:57am On May 03, 2023
It’s when you are doing MSc in a Public Nigerian University you’ll know that our educational system can’t solve the socioeconomic problems bedeviling the country.

Statistics is still being taught manually instead of using a software package to pass on the knowledge.

So sad!!!!

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by edungene7: 10:57am On May 03, 2023
Nigeria is an expired commodity no wonder people now go to Sudan of all places in search of education polithiefician have finished this country kpatapata

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by gentlegenius(m): 10:57am On May 03, 2023
For those condemning Nigeria, school curriculum irrelevance is not only a Nigerian problem. It is a global issue.
Robert Kiyosaki has been singing this for decades in his books, yet no one cares to listen. People are still wasting their money and time studying irrelevance courses in schools. The truth is: 'EDUCATION' is one of the two biggest SCAMS facing our world today. The other one is... RELIGION.

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by pikechukwu6(m): 10:59am On May 03, 2023
I'm still looking on how to apply quadratic equation in making money cheesy

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Mrbenny001: 10:59am On May 03, 2023
Mathematics and sciences should be translated and thought in local languages

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Musty112: 10:59am On May 03, 2023
As much as this might be true, we need to be circumspect. We don't want our kids to be taught how to identify as what they are not or become a letter in the world
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by arantess: 11:00am On May 03, 2023
dre11:
Curriculum In Nigerian Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks Present-Day Development – UNESCO



https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/03/curriculum-nigerian-schools-outdated-overloaded-lacks-present-day-development-unesco

True
But make Una no even reason introducing lgbtqwxyz in the syllabus and reorienting our children sexual awareness negatively

Cos na their plan be dat

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Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Nakuza(m): 11:01am On May 03, 2023
This is the first step a serious government would have taken without waiting for UNESCO directive.
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by savcy(m): 11:02am On May 03, 2023
For years several stakeholders have been harping about our outdated schools curriculum, and nothing has been done about it. It won't take much effort than to setup a committee of education stakeholders and intelligentia to come up with one that reflects modern needs. But, you see Nigeria? They can't do it, and probably never will, because, the quality of education or its lack thereof doesn't affect the barrels of oil we sell daily, and whose proceeds we share amongst ourselves for looting purposes. Unlike advanced economies, the quality of education doesn't directly affect the survivability of the country. If we need anything we simply import it. Nigeria goes on with or without quality education, and that's why its taking government over five decades to update a simple curriculum that's outlived its use.
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by Brenn594(m): 11:04am On May 03, 2023
Simple truth is Nigeria is lacking behind in most sectors, the Nigerian curriculum is outdated and rigid, we need to imbibe the idea of update from time to time.
Education system in this country is a mess, to get a standard education is very expensive because most public institutions are out of standard. reason why most political figures sent their offsprings abroad to school because they know.
Re: Curriculum In Schools Outdated, Overloaded, Lacks PresentDay Development: UNESCO by ojun50(m): 11:04am On May 03, 2023
This is bleeping true

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