The All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools has called on the Nigerian government to redesign the secondary school curriculum.

ANCOPSS national president, Mallam Ibn Musa, in an interview with our correspondent on what reforms the government should focus on in 2023, maintained that a curriculum conference should be held so as to enable the redesigning of the system to fit-for-purpose.

“We need to seat and look at our system of education. It has been a long time since we had a curriculum conference so we can redesign the education system. We can’t expect change if we don’t redesign the curriculum,” he said.

He added that the redesigning of the secondary school education system would create opportunities for technical education to be incorporated into the system, saying skills acquisition would keep them away from social vices.

“We need to talk about technical education instead of a non-functional system where students will graduate with no job we want a system where from secondary school they have things to do. After secondary school, a student can have a trade or skill acquisition, they do in other countries. It is during secondary education that a student is supposed to learn something and have something to do after JSS and SSS not waiting till university. It will need serious funding so that our products from secondary schools will be productive, it will also reduce militancy and crime.”