“By the next academic calendar, history will be taught as a standalone subject… It is with immediate implementation. So, definitely for the next academic year, everybody will fall in line because we have already articulated the curriculum and the examination should be done along those lines,” it said.
Unfortunately, full implementation of the ministry’s directive did not start until Lagos State took the lead by announcing its return to its own schools, close to five years after the new curriculum was unveiled. This is not good enough. The recurring problem of poor or non-implementation of policies should not be allowed to truncate this move.
All state governments should move fast to implement this programme. They should expand and fund the history departments of their colleges of education and universities to turn out more history teachers as clearly, they are in short supply. Scholarships, bursaries, and other incentives should be given to students willing to study history and take up teaching. There should provide funding for research and production of textbooks that are student-friendly.
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