Lagos State government, in a move to align its school curriculum content with the immediate and future needs of the state, says it will embark on the review of its school curriculum.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who stated this in Lagos Thursday, said the review of the curriculum was crucial as the content of education curricula actually determined the quality of the manpower that would eventually be produced.
Ambode, who was represented by Olabisi Ariyo, permanent secretary, Ministry of Education at the opening of the Lagos International Education Conference, observed that a paradigm shift in the education sector was necessary in order for the state economy to achieve a quantum leap from the current $131 billion GDP as well as remain very competitive.
According to him, “our administration is not oblivious of the role of education in the level of economic development that we envisioned for the state. We know that for the state economy to achieve a quantum leap from the current $131 billion GDP and remain very competitive, there must be a paradigm shift in the education sector.”
The governor further said that the challenges of the educational sector must be tackled head on if we as a nation desire to be active participants in the present knowledge-based global system, assuring that the state government had prioritised the improvement of the entire physical and human infrastructure in our schools.
However, the governor advocated for the integration of academic, technical and vocational education in the nation with the aim of empowering the citizens and youths to be self-sufficient.
