Education legislation began in Nigeria with
the introduction of the 1882 Education
Ordinance for British West African
territories that is Lagos, Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra
Leone and Gambia.
It prescribed the following criteria:
(i)
Award of grants for organization and discipline, with special grants for
schools, which obtained high percentage of, passes, and thus attained high
standard of general excellence.
(ii)
A capitation grant for each subject
(iii)
A capitation grant in proportion of the average attendance at school.
The other provisions of the ordinance
are: annual evaluation of pupils, methods of granting teachers certificates, a
system of grant-in-aid, and the establishment of a General Board of Education
with the power to establish local boards. The ordinance also recommended that
one-third of the salary of the inspector of schools for the Gold Coast should
be paid by the Lagos
colony. Lagos
and Gold were jointly administered.
The 1887 Education Ordinance
Consequent upon the separation of Lagos colony from the
Gold Coast in 1886, it became mandatory that a purely Nigerian Education
ordinance be enacted. The Ordinance was enacted in 1887. It created an
Education Board and also stipulated rates and conditions for the award of
grants, standard of examination, classification of teachers’ certificates and
the board’s power to grant scholarship for secondary education.
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