The House of Representatives has referred to as for the pressing evaluation of the Federal Ministry of Education’s round on the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) permitted topics for fundamental and senior secondary training.
This adopted a movement by the Deputy Majority Whip, Ayokunle Isiaka, declaring the gaps within the permitted topics by way of a round issued by the Federal Ministry of Education on the permitted topic listing categorised for fundamental and senior secondary training for numerous courses.
The House within the decision Thursday requested the federal training ministry to right away evaluation the curriculum for permitted topics, to return and embrace Biology as a core and obligatory topic for the senior secondary training curriculum.
“Five obligatory topics below the sphere of examine for Senior Secondary Curriculum, together with Biology, which is the examine of human physique, all residing issues, vegetation and organisms, that from the inception of Secondary Education system in Nigeria had at all times been a obligatory core topic and really essential for offering data on human existence and all residing issues has been eliminated as a core and obligatory topic.
“The removal of Biology as a compulsory and core subject will cause significant harm to the educational standard of our students in their capacity to acquire knowledge that is universally acknowledged and to benefit themselves, society, and humanity at large,” the lawmaker argued.
