Section 3: Responsibility of the Council.

The Council shall be charged with the general responsibility for the following, that is to say-(a) encouragement, promotion and co-ordination of educational research programmes carried out in Nigeria;
(b) identification of educational problems in Nigeria in which research is needed, and the establishment of the order of priority therefor;
(c) encouragement of research into educational problems and for that purpose to undertake, commission, incorporate and finance such research projects as the Council thinks fit;
(d) periodical compilation and publication of a list of completed research projects;
(e)
compilation, publication or sponsorship of the publication of the results of educational research, particularly in relation to Nigerian educational problems, and the popularisation of such results where their general recognition is in the Council's opinion of a national importance;
(f) assessment, surveying or investigation of any educational matter considered necessary, either independently or in co-operation with individuals, organisations or agencies;
(g) identification of language problems for the purpose of carrying out research into such problems and finding solutions thereto;
(h) establishment and maintenance of a research and development library to which new educational books and other related publications may be disposed.