The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, has advised the Nigerian government to tailor the country’s academic curriculum to suit its needs.
The UN agency gave the advice stated this at a capacity-building workshop for officials of the Ministry of Education, on Tuesday, in Abuja.
UNESCO’s Director for the International Bureau of Education, IBE, Mr. Ydo Yao, warned that unemployment persists because many Nigerians and Africans go to school and are qualified but have no jobs owing to the irrelevance of their training.
These are questions that we need to ask and all these have to be part of a process of reforms that can be undertaken by people who are trained and who have the skills to do it.
While explaining that the education sector can only be transformed if its curriculum is transformed, Yao added that curriculum is for education, what a constitution is for a democracy and that means it’s at the heart of education.
