Advisory Committee on Education in Tropical Africa/the Colonies

Title

Advisory Committee on Education in Tropical Africa/the Colonies

Shelfmark

MSS. Lugard 144

Summary

File 1, fols. 1-47: Correspondence about Lugard's membership of the committee, 1923-1937.

File 2, fols. 1-59: Draft memoranda for the Advisory Committee on "religious teaching in Government Schools" with related correspondence, 1922-1925.

File 3, fols. 1-47 and items 1-8: Memoranda for the Advisory Committee on "Native Education in Uganda" and, by Lugard and J.H. Oldham, on "The Place of the Vernacular in African Education", with correspondence, comments and notes on education policy in Africa, 1924-1930.

File 4, items 1-22: Colonial Office reports and memoranda on education in Africa, 1924-1930.

File 5, fols. 1-12: Correspondence with F.M. Urling-Smith about a proposed amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Nigerian Education Departments and an extract from the Director of Education's note on a tour of inspection east of the Niger, 1926-1933.

File 6, items 1-7: Reports and a memorandum by the Governor of the Gold Coast on the Colonial Office Education Conference, 1927.

File 7, fols.1-13 and item 1: Correspondence (fols. 1-8) with A.G. Fraser about the teaching of religion in Government schools, 1925, report (item 1) of the formal opening of Achimota School, 1927, and (fols. 9-13) statement by Fraser to the Higher Education (Elliot) Commission for West Africa, 1944.

File 8, fols. 1-83: Correspondence and related papers about the foundation and management of the African Students' Hostel, 1929-1940.

File 9, item 1: Report by Professor Robert Herndon Fife to the Carnegie Corporation of New York on "Tendencies in Education in East and South Africa with particular reference to the Language Question", 1932.

File 10, fols. 1-18: Draft minutes of the 51st meeting of the Advisory Committee, 1934.

Date

1922-1944

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box