New Secondary School Curriculum Out September — Minister 

The Federal Government is set to introduce a new curriculum for all secondary schools across the country by September 2024.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman announced this at the ongoing 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting on Thursday, in Abuja.

“We are working hard to ensure that a new curriculum is introduced for secondary schools by September,” Mamman said.

He noted that the exercise has been on in the past year and a stakeholders’ meeting will be held on August 6, 2024 on the new curriculum.

“It is our plan that by September, this programme will be implemented in all schools, public and private,” the minister said.

Recently, the National Senior Secondary School Education Commission decried the deplorable state of senior secondary schools in the country, and called for collaboration to overcome some of the challenges bedeviling the secondary level of education in the country.

The Commission listed some of the challenges confronting the sector, including infrastructural deficit, unqualified teachers, obsolete curriculum, and deplorable libraries and laboratories.

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