Abstract
This chapter describes the development of modern education in Nigeria from 1926–1960. One of the first outcomes of the Phelps–Stokes Report and the Memorandum on Educational Policy in British Tropical Africa was the passing of a new Education Ordinance and Code that became effective on May 26, 1926; the regulations under it became so on September 1, 1927. The provisions were restricted to the Colony and the southern provinces and were directed to the producing of orderly expansion of education. The main provisions included the keeping of a register of teachers; only persons enrolled on the register were to be permitted to teach in the schools in the colony and the southern provinces. The 1926 Education Ordinance proved to be a landmark in the development of education in Nigeria in that it gave order and direction to its development and laid the foundation for a system. At the same time, it provided the possibilities of systematically increasing the expenditure on education through the grants-in-aid system.
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