Implementation of new varsity curriculum begins September – NUC.

The CCMAS document is expected to guide institutions in designing curricula for their programmes while bringing necessary innovation into the content and delivery of their programmes towards achieving the country’s overall education and training goals.

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Speaking at the Stakeholders’ Colloquium on CCMAS in Abuja on Wednesday, the Acting Executive Secretary of NUC,  Chris Maiyaki, said the document would reposition Nigerian universities to be among the best-rated in Africa.

Maiyaki said that CCMAS would make up 70 per cent of the curriculum while the university decides what to include in the remaining 30 per cent.

According to him, the implementation will help sharpen the future of the education sector.

” The role and development of the CCMAS is to ensure commitment in advancing our education and our great nation.

” NUC is primarily dedicated to ensuring quality and global competitiveness of Nigerian universities and the graduates we produce.

” The development of the CCMAS went through a painstaking process by bringing experts from our universities comprising professors, regulatory bodies, Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) and all stakeholders.

Implementation of new varsity curriculum begins September – NUC.

“The CCMAS reflects global initiative that will equip graduates with knowledge and wherewithal that will advance the nation’s development,” he said.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, encouraged universities to optimally use 30 per cent of the university senate’s input.

Mamman advised universities to ensure that learning outcomes,  skills, and soft skills were acquired, irrespective of the core discipline.

He said the skills must readily apply to the university’s environment, the country, and the general global community.

” There is no better place and time than now to develop a strategy to guide tertiary institutions, particularly universities, in their mandate to provide appropriate manpower for the country.

” This is through using a curriculum and applying minimum standards that would guarantee we teach our students in such a way and manner that they would be highly skilled and employable to contribute to national development efforts.

” 70 per cent of the total curriculum is captured in the CCMAS. In comparison, 30 per cent of the curriculum has been ceded to universities Senates to build on the uniqueness of their various universities.

” This principle allows for a good deal of adaptation that suits not only local peculiarities of the universities but provides universities opportunities to carve a niche for themselves in areas of comparative advantage,” he said.

The minister commended universities that had concluded their work on the 30 per cent component and submitted the same for review.

He also urged those who have not to endeavour to do so in the shortest possible time as the next academic session rolls in.

He pledged the commitment of the Federal Government to ensuring that our education system remained nationally relevant and globally competitive.

In a keynote address, Former Vice Chancellor Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Prof. Michael Faborode, said the idea of the CCMAS was to promote diversification and differentiation in the system.

He said this was to provide proper conceptual and administrative guidelines and a harmonised legal framework for higher education.

Faborode commended the over 70 per cent of universities that had already complied with uploading their 30 per cent curriculum inputs into the CCMAS.

He said this was the way to go so that universities could be globally relevant and competitive and provide the educational needs to the students so they could be employable after graduation.

CCMAS was developed in 2018 following the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) review –the curriculum guide for Nigerian universities, which had been in use since 2007.

The CCMAS also expanded BMAS from 12 to 17 disciplines to reposition the system to reflect the realities of the 21st century.

The 17 disciplines are Administration and Management, Agriculture, Allied Health Sciences, Architecture, Arts, Basic Medical Sciences, Communication and Media Studies, Computing and Education.

Others are Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences, Law, Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Social Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.

 

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