An Appraisal of the Objectives of Health Education Programme in Secondary Schools in Nigeria: Way Forward in the 21st Centuray

Abstract

The paper is an appraisal of the objectives of health education programme in secondary schools in Nigeria. The National Policy on Education clearly spells out the objectives of physical education, but is silent about health education, the academic offering for the sciences which has over the years emphasize the mainstreaming of health education with physics, chemistry and biology, has distracted it from its fundamental value as a subject that should at all times stand on its own as a core subject. Achieving the establishment and maintenance of sanitary practices in most Nigerian secondary school health programme as advanced by experts, therefore, still remains an illusion. Based on these and many other contentious it was recommended among others that educational planners should take note of these and now correct the in imbalance wherever the next review of the National Policy on Education is to be done.