A non-governmental organisation, Support Bridges Initiative, has urged government to reorganise secondary school curriculum by including career and Human Resources as subjects.
The NGO made this appeal during the celebration of its 12th silver jubilee anniversary at Dolphin Senior Secondary School, Lagos Island. The theme of the event was, “Matching Secondary School curriculum with career and HR needs in Nigeria.”
The NGO lamented that most secondary school students failed to understand the required skills required to compete effectively in an already saturated labour market.
A Coordinator of the Support Bridges Initiative, Mr. Niyi Obaremi, therefore, urged the government to partner with the NGO in the aforementioned task by making provision for the subjects in the curriculum.
Obaremi said, “Government should ensure that what sells in the market, that is the HR market, such as how to attend interviews, job applications etc, that are not in the school curricula are provided for students. There is the need to provide skills and capacities to compete for positions, when they leave school.
“It is also important for school authorities to keep pace with what is going on in the HR in companies, and government establishments. What are the requirements of these establishments? What is the population.So, they can look at those things and structure the school curriculum to fit them, thereby empowering the children in that way.”
Support Bridges Initiative was established in 2005 to cater for teenagers between ages 13 to 19, by helping them to develop their talents and empowering them in order to make career choice. Generally, the idea is to bridge the gap in order to enable students make the right contributions.
