The Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has described Nigeria’s current educational policy as an archaic system of operation that requires an immediate review.
Speaking on Monday during his guest lecture at the University of Medical Science, in Ondo, El-Rufai admitted that the current policy on education was deficient in view of the present-day realities and emerging issues affecting the education sector.
He said: “I think that fundamental reforms are needed in education and I think what the Federal Ministry of Education needs to do is to lead in reviewing the national policy on education, which is already forty or fifty years old. In my view, it is out of time; in the twenty-first century so much has changed in education, but there is a need to sit down and get experts in the subjects to look at what is happening in the educational policies of countries in the world: what is changing. Professions are dying and new ones are coming up. Our curriculum and policies on education are all grounded in the twentieth century, while we are in the 21st, there is a need for a holistic review of that.”
El-Rufai has championed an educational revolution in the North since he became the state governor in 2015.
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