CITING the need for improvement, Nigeria is reworking its basic education programme. But progress does not lie only in changing systems just for the sake of it. It requires serious measures targeted at enhancing standards and adapting to current societal needs.
Nigeria operated a five-year secondary school system and an optional two-year sixth form class. It scrapped it and introduced the 6-3-3-4 system in 1982 as part of the National Policy on Education.
Under this system, pupils sit for the Basic Education Certificate Examination at the end of JSS3. Thereafter, they proceed to senior secondary school where they sit for the School Certificate Examination at the end of SS3.
On June 30, the Federal Government announced plans to abolish this policy. It now favours the 12-year basic education model, which removes the external examination requirement between junior and senior secondary school.
The proposal, which will be presented at the next
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