RSG Spends N20m On Purchase Of New Curriculum

The Rivers State Government spent about N20 million for the purchase of the new nine-year Basic Education Curriculum (BEC).

Executive Secretary of the National Education Research and Development Council (NERDC), Prof. Godswill Obioma, disclosed this at the unveilment of a three-day workshop for the domestication of the curriculum in Port Harcourt last week.

Prof. Obioma while calling on other states to shun illegal replication of the cur riculum, advised other states to emulate the example of Rivers State by purchasing some copies of the scheme.

Meanwhile, the Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence Nemi, has restated the state resolve to enforce the implementation of the new curriculum as it has taken delivery of several copies of the new scheme.

Dame nemi stated that the purchasing of the new curriculum is a practical demonstration of government resolve to raise the quality of education, following the outcome of deliberations at the Education Retreat in Calabar last year.

She added that the curriculum includes the inculcation of the right type of values and attitudes for the survival of individual and the Nigerian society.

The Rivers State Education Commissioner assured all stakeholders in the education sector of the determination to set a new and laudable standard in all schools in the state.

Dame Nemi reiterated that the ministry would commence the distribution of the new curriculum in all schools to ensure its judicious use, as teachers and pupils would be properly guided.

In his address, President of the Nigeria Academy of Education, Prof. Otonti Nduka, charged all participants of the workshop to jettison unwholesome attitude that would jeopardise the effective implementation of the new scheme.

He remarked, excellence must be adhered to in order to identify and inculcate the core objectives of the curriculum at all levels of the educational system”.