Nigeria: Furore Over Revised Basic Education Curriculum

Despite its alleged inherent benefits , the decision by the Federal Ministry of Education to reduce the workload of students at the basic education level, from 20 to a maximum of 10 subjects, under the extant nine-year basic educational curriculum, has been greeted with diverse reactions.

In the new system developed by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), and intended to be in tandem with international models, Christian Religious Studies (CRS) and Islamic Religious Studies (IRS), which were hitherto taught separately, are now merged under Religion and National Values (RNV), which also embodies subjects like Civic Education, Social Studies, and Security Education.

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