• Junior Secondary Education is the education which a child receives immediately after primary education.
• The objectives of Junior Secondary Education are to:
  • Provide the child with diverse basic knowledge and skills for entrepreneurship and educational advancement;
  • develop patriotic young people equipped to contribute to social development and the performance of their civic responsibilities.
  • inculcate values and raise rmrally upright individuals capable of independent ffinking, and who appreciate the dignity of labour; and
  • inspire national consciousness and harnnonious co-existence irrespective of differences in endowment, religion, colour, ethnic and socio-economic background.
• The Curriculum for Junior Secondary Education shall be as follows:
  • English Studies
  • One Nigerian Language
  • Mathematics
  • Basic Science and Technology
    • Basic Science
    • Basic Technology
    • Information Technology
    • Physical and Health Education
  • Religion and National Values
    • Christian Religious Studies

• Islamic Studies

• Social Studies
• Civic Education
• Security Education
• Pre—Vocational Studies
  • Home Economics
  • Agriculture
• French Language
• Cultural and Creative
• Business Studies
• Arabic (optional)

For effective teaching and leaning at the Junior Secondary Education level, the teacher—student ratio shall be 1:35.