Obaseki approves 300 schools for new skills-based curriculum

The Edo. State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has said that three hundred schools in the basic education subsector have been selected for the implementation of the state’s new skills-oriented curriculum.

The governor said in his New Year broadcast that the new curriculum would leverage on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

“Our teachers will be supported and the school curriculum adjusted to make it more relevant. We will commence our basic education reforms with a pilot project covering the first 300 schools,” he said, adding, “In the primary and secondary education sub-sector, we have successfully completed the census of our public primary and secondary schools to ascertain the exact number of schools, teachers, students and infrastructural facilities that exist. We are overhauling our basic education system by introducing technology to our primary schools and enhancing the capacity of our teachers to instruct our children by using modern technology tools.”

He explained that the census “will aid in planned rehabilitation, reconstruction, equipping and management of our educational institutions,” adding that they would embark on massive rehabilitation and reconstruction work in public primary and secondary schools.

He pointed out that the new curriculum also included themes in social studies that would educate children on the ills of human trafficking, a policy of the state government designed to win the young ones to join in the campaign against human trafficking and illegal migration.

“This is the only way to effectively empower our people educationally to enable them compete anywhere in the world,” he said.