The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday has passed a bill to repeal the National Secondary Education Commission Act after it scaled the second reading.
The Senate passed the NSSE bill which was sponsored by Senator Yahaya Abdullahi, its aim is to establish the National Senior Secondary Education Act, 2022, to prescribe basic requirements for senior secondary education in Nigeria.
The 6-3-3-4 system provided for disarticulation of Senior Secondary Education from Junior Secondary Education, but while the Junior Secondary component was classified under Basic Education and enjoyed regulatory oversight and intervention from the Universal Basic Education Commission, the Senior Secondary level had no regulatory body.
The bill, after consideration, was referred by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, to the Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) for further legislative work.
The Committee was given four weeks to report back to the chamber in plenary.