THE RETURN OF HISTORY IN OUR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

THE RETURN OF HISTORY IN OUR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

                               By:
Nurudeen Dauda
                 March 28, 2018
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Permit me to congratulate Nigerians and the Minister of education Mal. Adamu Adamu  for the successful launched of the new curriculum for History subject. 

History as a subject in our secondary schools used to be a stand- alone subject before its merger with other subjects in 2009. The government policy/decision to remove "History" from the curriculum of Secondary schools in Nigeria effective from 2009/2010 academic session , in my view, was a terrible mistake. What a decade mistake! What a National tragedy! Imagine people without a sense of  History!

I could not agree more with the Honourable Minister of education Mal. Adamu Adamu when he said: "the importance of history to nation building, national identity, patriotism and overall human development could not be overemphasised"(Daily Trust, March 28,2018).

The minister had once said: "the removal of History was a mistake and that it is part of greatness to correct the mistake"... somebody who does not know his History is even worse than a dead"

History was offered  in Secondary schools as an "option" at senior secondary school level across the country before it was removed as a stand -alone subject . However, the return of History as a stand alone subject in our secondary schools is a welcome development. In my suggestion, the subject this time around should not longer be optional as it used to be in the past , but a"COMPULSORY" subject at both  primary  and secondary school levels.

In my suggestion, our policy makers on the educational sector should design our educational system in such a way that it could tackle the problem of unemployment in the country as follows :

TECHNICAL EDUCATION:

The federal ministry of education in collaboration with all the ministries of education at the state levels should give more emphasis on technical education. Let's revive our "abandoned"  technical colleges in the country as a means of providing jobs to our teeiming youth. In the past we used to have functional technical schools in the country where skills acquisitions courses ; such as: welding,plumbing,woodwork, and carpentry etc., were being imparted to our students at secondary school levels. 
 

ENTERPRENUESHIP EDUCATION:

In my view, if Nigeria must get it right, the ministry of education should give more priority to entrepreneurship education in the country .Entrepreneur education is highly needed in our National policy on education. The government should introduce entrepreneurship education in our secondary schools. However, the entrepreneurship courses being offered at the universities presently in the country should not be only taught at 300 or 200 levels. In my suggestion, it should be made compulsory at all levels not only 300 or 200 levels.

National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), in my view, should be restructured in such a way that it will be a means of imparting entrepreneurship skills to our graduates with a view of making them self employed rather than job seekers. The really is that government cannot provide jobs to all unemployed graduates.

May God bless Nigeria!

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