The Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affair (NSCIA) has reacted to the revised Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) set to be implemented in the next academic session for both primary and junior schools across the country, according to the council's publicity secretary, the new curriculum if implemented would deprive children their right to receive religious knowledge. The council called for immediate reversal of the policy, stating that, the action is ill-advised and unacceptable :
“The new curriculum which relegates Islamic Studies/ Christian Religious Studies (IS/CRS) to a part of a subject (up to Junior Secondary School) and which made the subjects optional at the Senior Secondary level be reversed so that the two are made independent, core and compulsory up to the Senior Secondary level,”
According to Nigeria Education Research and Development Council (NERDC), some subjects have been merged into a single subject - read summary here - in the revised BEC in effort to reduce the number of subject offering by students from about 13-15 subjects to between 6-10 subjects.
The merger of Islamic Studies, Christian Religious Studies, Civic Education and Social Studies subjects into a new subject, Religion and National Studies (RNS) now appear to be controversial.
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