President, All Nigeria Co-Federation of Principals of Senior Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Hajia Binta Abdulrahaman, has said that lack of support infrastructure was delaying implementation of new senior secondary school curriculum.

The president said in Abuja on the sideline of a workshop organised for school administrators, that lack of manpower and training for teachers had also contributed to the problem.

“Secondary schools are finding it difficult to implement the new curriculum due to the challenges in manpower development and infrastructure to really learn the trade,” she said.

Abdulrahaman noted that very little progress had been made in implementation several months after the inauguration of the curriculum by President Goodluck Jonathan.

The ANCOPSS president said government must tackle the situation in order to ensure that the trade and entrepreneurship subjects embedded into the new curriculum structure, were implemented.

She explained that the new subjects were included to help students become self reliant, so as to tackle the increasing unemployment in the country.

She, however, noted that the existing number of teachers could not cope with the present work load.

The ANCOPSS boss emphasised the need for the teachers to be trained on the new trade and entrepreneurship subjects in the new curriculum to bring them up to date on the subjects.

“Federal Government needs to make provision for adequate training for teachers in senior secondary schools to help build students’ capacity.

“I’m calling on the federal government to help in the area of providing several workshops to help build the students up to be more acquainted with technological subjects to make them self reliant,’’ she said.

She also called on the students to avoid any form of distraction in their academic pursuit.