BRIEF BACKGROUND

In 1988, four separate bodies namely:
the Nigerian Educational Research Council;
the Comparative Education Study and Adaptation Centre;
the Nigerian Book Development Council; and
the Nigerian Language Centre;
were merged to form the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) as a grade A parastatal of the Federal Ministry of Education through Act No. 53 of 1988.

Vision
Building and sustaining a culture of strategic educational research and development that will inform the formulation and effective implementation of policies in education as well as in other related sectors of the economy.

Mission
Creating the enabling environment in which educational research and development activities will thrive and in the process not only encourage collaboration with international development partners but also foster public-private partnerships in our bid to render educational research and development efforts sustainable and needs driven.

Core Objective

Our Core Objective is to become a Regional Centre of Excellence in Educational Research and Development in Africa by 2010 and expand to an international Status by 2015.