Stakeholders Push For Overhaul In Educational Sector

Some stakeholders on Thursday called for complete overhaul of the curriculum at all levels of education in the country.

They made the call in separate presentations at the 34th Centre for Value and Leadership Without Title (LWT) tribute colloquium in honour of Cardinal Anthony Okogie at 80 and Prof. Pius Obanya at 77, in Lagos.

The colloquium was tagged “Mission, Education and Nation Building”.

The Chief Executive Officer of Global International College, Mrs. Abolaji Osime, advised the Federal Government to overhaul the curriculum to suit the 21st century standard and quality.

Osime said the government needed to have the political will to improve on the sector “because education is the foundation for development”.

According to her, fund is not the only challenge facing education but also lack of political will, to effect the necessary change in the sector.

“Education can be repositioned if the federal government put things right by beginning with overhauling of the curriculum”, she said.

Prof. Gidado Tahir from the University of Abuja said successive government leaders did not believe in education as a transformation instrument.

Tahir said leaders had not appreciated that education was the key element to transform the country.

“If government appreciates education, they will positively transform the country. The curriculum would have been overhauled to suit our time”, he said.

The Director for Social Communication, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Msgr. Gabriel Osu, stressed the need to clarify the new curriculum introduced by the federal government.

“Education should be a joint programme among the society, missionaries and government at all levelsW”, he said.

(NAN)