ABSTRACT
A study of the system of administration in the Western state serves as a good example of the way in which the different states of Nigeria function. The Western state now has a board of education that employs and deploys teachers at secondary schools and teacher-training institutions. The Ministry of Education administers the entire educational system, sharing those aspects of administration described earlier with the boards of education both at state and provincial level. The present goals of Nigerian secondary schools are similar to the goals of secondary education in colonial times. Technical education had a slow start and developed less quickly than other forms of education in Nigeria. The Afro-Anglo-American Teacher-Education Programme (A.A.A.) came into existence as a result of a meeting held by the directors of the institutes of education and heads of departments of education in the then existing six universities and university colleges in English-speaking Africa in 1960.
