The National Council on Education (NCE) has approved the incorporation of the one-year pre-primary education into the existing 6-3-3-4 to become 1-6-3-3-4. The decision was contained in a communiqué issued yesterday at the end of the 59th Annual Meeting of the council, which ended on Friday in Abuja. The meeting, which was presided over by the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, was held from June 24 to June 28. The meeting had as its theme “Strengthening the Institutional Management of Education for Quality Service Delivery”. The council approved the National Policy on Albinism and its Implementation Guidelines. In addition, the council endorsed the implementation of the revised Nine-Year Basic Education Curriculum with effect from 2014, beginning with Primary 1 and the Junior Secondary School. It also approved that every student in Federal and State Science and Technical Colleges must offer a technical subject. The council approved the re-activation of the Teacher Vacation Course (TVC) by the Federal Ministry of Education, states and the FCT in collaboration with professional associations and subject specialists. The NCE approved that Directors of Planning, Research and Statistics (DPRS) in state Ministries of Education should take ownership of the process of data collection for credibility, reliability and timeliness. “This is as enshrined in the National EMIS Policy and its Implementation Guidelines,” the communiqué stated. NEC noted with concern that only 10 percent of teachers in Basic Education schools in the country were computer literate. NAN sundaytrust.ng/index.php/news/13542-nce-approves-1-6-3-3-4-system
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:44:57 +0000
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