The House of Representatives has urged the National
Universities Commission (NUC) in collaboration with tertiary institutions to
plan the curriculum in line with what is needed for graduates' performance in
work places and national development.
It also directed its Committee on Tertiary
Education and Services to ensure compliance.
This resolution was sequel to the adoption of a
motion on: ‘Need to Review Curriculum of Tertiary Institutions to Reflect Job
Needs and Serve as an Instrument for Achieving National Development’, sponsored
by Kabiru Amadu.
Amadu, while presenting the motion, said Nigeria's
educational curriculum is in dire need of innovation that is critical to
national development and sustenance as the curriculum being implemented today
by various institutions was designed about 30 years ago, thus making it unfit
to meet the present day needs of employers of labour.
He noted that a review of the curriculum would help
students from secondary school level to have better and quality education while
making them relevant to the labour industry and being globally competitive.
The lawmaker stressed that the consequence of
tertiary institutions relying on the outdated curriculum is that the country
would continue to turn out the same kind of graduates and professionals that
are unemployable, adding that the inadequacy of the curriculum of the country’s
tertiary institutions has led to so many Nigerians travelling abroad to acquire
basic trainings, thereby exporting needed foreign exchange.
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