Austin Anozie and Oluchi Obiasogu
18 November 2008
Federal Government needs to ensure full implementation of the Family Life HIV Education (FLHE) in schools across the nation, says Executive Director, Action Health Incorporated (AHI) Mrs. Nike Essiet in a chat with Good Health Weekly recently.
She said : "In 1999, the national campaign on education which is the highest policy making body in the country approved integration of tertiary education into the school curriculum for primary, secondary and tertiary level. Since then, the curriculum was developed, approve by the council in 2001 and implementation was to serve at all level.
Interestingly, the implementation started at in service level meaning teachers in secondary schools working directly with schools".
She further noted that for a sustainable process of implementing the curriculum nationally, there should be effective work on the trainers.
"The training we have done so far since the beginning of the year has covered four colleges of education. There are about seventy some thing colleges of education in the federation. Each training has representatives from the colleges, at the end of the two weeks they are fully equipped.
The two weeks training, she explained, was for masters trainers, who not only teach in their schools but also help with the training in other colleges of education.
So for instance, after the January, February round of training that we did, the commission for colleges of education selected four of the master trainers out of them to set a training in Kaduna, so there is a national plan for changing up and that is why we are facilitating the profession".
These participant are the core of trainers who will ensure that it happens in their college. There are six colleges represented in this training, when they go through the training programme they know that the implementation had to begin from the college.
According to Alhaji Shuabu Musa Rafindadi, a participant from Kaduna state representing college of education North western zone, said the programme is a kind of education that parent will use to educate their children.
At the same time the teachers will educate the children in the school.
He explained that initially, this kind of education is been taught under Biology but now the course is out on it own, the curriculum is out under general training department.
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