The House of Representatives has urged the National Universities Commission (NUC) in collaboration with tertiary institutions to plan the curriculum in line with what is needed for graduates’ performance in workplaces and national development.
The House also mandated the Committee on Tertiary Education and Services to ensure compliance.
his resolution followed the adoption of a motion on: “Need to Review Curriculum of Tertiary Institutions to Reflect Job Needs and serve as an Instrument for Achieving National Development”, sponsored by Kabiru Amadu (PDP, Zamfara).
Amadu while presenting the motion said the House noted that Nigeria’s educational curriculum was in dire need of innovation that is critical to national development and sustenance.
He said the curriculum being implemented today by various institutions was designed about 30 years ago, thus making it inadequate to meet the present-day needs of employers of labour.
According to him, the House also noted that a review of the curriculum would help students from the secondary level to have better and quality education while making them relevant to the labour industry and being globally competitive.
He said the House was “worried that the consequence of tertiary institutions relying on the out-dated curriculum is that the country would continue to turn out the same kind of graduates and professionals that are unemployable.
He further noted that the inadequacy of the Curriculum of the nation’s tertiary institutions has led to so many Nigerians travelling abroad to acquire basic training, thereby exporting needed foreign exchange.
