The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), is an agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria charged with the responsibility of implementing educational policies in Nigeria.
NERDC has been around since 1964, when it was named as the Nigeria Educational Research Council (NERC).
The late Chief Federal Adviser on Education, Chief S.O.Awokoye, organized the National Conference on Curriculum Development from September 8 to 12, 1969, by a group of professionals from the Federal Ministry of Education.
[2] Following the conference, recommendations for NERC's statutory status were made in order to facilitate and improve the execution of the curriculum conference's principal recommendations, resulting in Decree No.
[2] In 1987, the National Language Centre, the National Book Development Council, and the Comparative Education Study and Adaptation Centre (CESAC) were merged with the NERC in a bid to reduce the cost and duplication of responsibilities leading to the adoption of a name change from NERC to NERDC.