The Federal Government has announced plans to scrap the policy that separates the administration of Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) and Senior Secondary Schools (SSS).
The decision comes after official data linked the administrative division to a troubling surge in student dropout rates across the country.
The Minister of Education, Dr Olatunji Alausa, declared the policy an ineffective reform that has completely failed to achieve its original academic objectives.
Speaking in Abuja, Alausa explained that splitting secondary schools into separate management structures has done nothing but create unnecessary administrative bottlenecks.
Instead of improving the education pipeline, the separation has created a massive structural barrier that prevents millions of students from smoothly transitioning from junior to senior secondary school.
The minister described the current rate of students failing to make this crucial academic transition as completely unacceptable for the country’s development.
To dismantle the system, Alausa directed officials within the Federal Ministry of Education to immediately draft a position paper for presentation to the National Council on Education (NCE) to finalise the policy’s cancellation.
Alongside the structural shake-up, the minister inaugurated a new committee tasked with breathing life into the government’s dormant specialised school projects.
The committee is mandated to accelerate project implementation and eliminate delays holding back Smart Schools, Bilingual Schools, and Alternative Schools across Nigeria.
The goal is to ensure these heavily funded public institutions are fully completed, properly equipped with modern learning tools, staffed with trained teachers, and opened to students before the end of the year.
Alausa warned that the administration will no longer tolerate publicly funded educational facilities sitting abandoned or underutilised.
He stressed that every completed classroom left locked up represents a direct loss of opportunity for Nigerian children.
Moving forward, the ministry’s focus will shift away from creating administrative hurdles and pivot entirely toward securing measurable improvements in actual student learning outcomes nationwide.
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