edu 304 - comparative education - National Open University of Nigeria

teaching methods.
The negro Education Grant was stopped in 1845 as a result of
which the colonial legislatures were saddled with the responsibility of
providing education for the people in the country. This change in the
provision of education led the legislatures to give preference to
industrial education. By 1850, perhaps the first Government Normal
School of Industry was founded.
The office of superintendent of schools as well as education
department was set up after Jamaica had become a Crown colony in
1866. It was this department that saw to the efficiency of education
through supervision and collection of school fees. Based on the
recommendation made by the Royal Commission of 1885, an education
board was set up in 1892 with the representatives of the religious
organizations as members of the board as well as Education
Superintendent as the Ex-officio chairman. Managers were the local
administrators of school since majority of such managers were the
proprietors of schools.
In order to involve the Jamaica's local people in the educational
administration, fourteen parish school boards were founded in the year
1914. The members’ appointment was done by the governor on the basis
of the recommendations made by the schools' managers as well as
another local government body. Also, twenty-one district school boards
were appointed based on the recommendation made by the parish
school boards.
However, after the reorganization of the school board as a result of
the recommendations made by the legislative committee of 1926, the
following were to see to the improvement of education department.
(a) Director of Education
(b) Deputy Director of Education
(c) 3 Chief Inspectors of Education
(d) Inspectors of Education and
(e) Assistant Inspectors of Education
3.6.3 Stages of Education
The system of education in Jamaica was a resemblance of the
traditional British education system. The education curriculum was
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