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NERDC Academic Centres/Directorates
There are seven Academic Directorates of the Council namely:
1. Book Development
2. Curriculum Development
3. Educational Research
4. Language Development
5. Library and Informatics
6. Special Programme, and
7. Executive Secretary's Office
as well as the service Directorates of Administration and Supplies and Finance and Accounts. Each Academic Centre has a number of Departments.
FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL
* Book Development Centre
* Formulate and implement a national policy on book development,
* Undertake and promote book development and authorship,
ensuring the provision of adequate infrastructural facilities
for book manufacture,
* Encourage the expansion of local printing and publishing
industry in order to facilitate book production,
* Develop an effective book distribution sector so as to ensure a
nation-wide circulation,
* Encourage the establishment of and strengthen professional
associations of the book industry in Nigeria,
* Encourage and promote a reading culture through a continuous
research into the needs of Nigerian readers,
* Produce Syllabuses and instructional materials,
* Develop and encourage the development of core-books on Nigerian Languages in co-operation with any other institution or organisation concerned with book development (collateral with).
Curriculum Development Centre:
* Promote the development of curricula at all levels of the educational
system,
* Develop new techniques and approaches to curriculum development,
* Produce syllabuses and instructional materials,
* Carryout studies in Comparative Curriculum (collateral with),
* Organize teacher education/orientation programmes for new techniques
and innovations in curriculum,
* Develop instructional materials for various languages taught in the
schools,
* Set up pilot curriculum projects in educational institutions
* Educational Research Centre
* Encourage, promote and coordinate educational research programmes
carried out in Nigeria,
* Identification of educational problems in Nigeria in which research is
needed, and the establishment of the order of priority therefore,
* Compilation, publication or sponsorship of the publication of the results
of educational research particularly in relation to Nigerian educational
problems and the popularisation of such results where their recognition
is in the Council's opinion of a national importance,
* Carryout studies in comparative curriculum,
* Encourage and promote reading culture through a continuous research
into the needs of Nigerian readers (collateral with)
* Language Development Centre:
* Identification of language problems for the purpose of carrying out
research into such problems and finding solution thereto,
* Develop and encourage the development of materials for various
languages taught in schools,
* Advise and implement all policies relating to languages,
* Promote and develop Nigerian languages,
* Coordinate language development projects throughout Nigeria and
prepare an overall design for language research needs both internally
and through grants and subsidies to institutions, qualified agencies and
organizations,
* Carryout language extension services (including teacher training and
linguistic courses),
* Develop and encourage the development of core books in Nigerian
languages in co-operation with any other institution or organization
concerned with book development,
* Provide adequate translation facilities necessary for book development
in Nigeria
* Carryout studies in Comparative Curriculum (collateral with)
* Encourage and promote a reading culture through a continuous research
into the needs of Nigerian readers,
* Promote the development of curricula at all level of the educational
system,
* Set-up pilot Curriculum projects in educational institutions
Library and Informatics Centre
* Periodical compilation and publication of a list of completed research
projects,
* Establishment and maintenance of a research and development library
to which new educational books and other related publications may be
deposited,
* Serve as center for the exchange of information on books and all related
issues,
* Encourage and promote a reading culture through a continuous research
into the needs of Nigerian readers (collateral with).
Special Programmes Centre
* Maintain relationship with corresponding educational research and
development centers in Nigeria and other countries,
* Promote the development of curricula at all levels of the educational
system
* Carryout studies in comparative curriculum,
* Set-up pilot curriculum projects in educational institutions,
* Organize teacher educational projects in educational institutions,
* Provide syllabuses and instructional materials
* The Executive Secretary's Office
* Encouragement of research into educational problems and for that purpose, to undertake, commission, incorporate and finance such research projects as the council thinks fit,
* Assessment, surveying or investigation of educational matters considered necessary, either independently or in co-operation with individuals, organizations or agencies,
* Sponsor national and international educational conferences as may be relevant to the functions of the Council under the Decree
* Maintain relationship with corresponding educational research and development bodies in Nigeria and in other countries
* Carryout such other activities likely to assist in the performance of the functions imposed on the council under this Decree.
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