Implementation of Junior Secondary Schools Curriculum in Nigeria Problems and Way Forward

Abstract

Junior secondary school education in Nigeria is one of the sub-components of basic education. The curriculum of junior secondary schools in Nigeria is faced with many problems of implementation in Nigeria. This paper examines problems facing the implementation of junior secondary schoolcurriculum in Nigeria. Primary and secondary data were employed in the paper. The secondary data were sourced from print and online publication. This paper identified inadequate funding, inadequate professional teachers, inadequate infrastructural facilities, inadequate instructional materials, poor supervision, corruption, and ineffective capacity development programme and insecurity problem as the problems preventing effective implementation of junior secondary school in Nigeria. To address these problems, the presenters hereby recommended the following; increase in the funding of junior secondary school, employment of more professional teachers, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, instructional materials, Security in all junior secondary schools. Corruption in the ministries and school should be fought with anti-corruption agencies in the country, teachers in junior secondary schools should be exposed to constant training and retraining programme and junior secondary schools should be supervised constantly.