The need for a national policy on education came about as a result of the 1996 National Curriculum Conference which was attended by a cross-section of Nigerians. The conference was a culmination of expressions of general dissatisfaction with the existing education system which had become irrelevant to national needs, aspirations and goals. After the National Curriculum Conference, a seminar of expert drawn from a wide range of interest groups within Nigeria was convened in 1973. The seminar, which includes voluntary agencies and external bodies, deliberated on what a national policy on education for an independent and sovereign Nigeria should be. The outcome of the seminar was a draft document which, after due comments were received from the states and other interest groups, led to the final document, the National Policy on Education, first published in 1997. Since the published of the first edition in 1997, the 2nd and 3rd editions were published in 1981 and 1998 respectively in keepi