was sent to Egypt and Sudan to study Kuttabs and schools in Mansoura, Bulaq and Giza and in the Sudan. By 1911, Vischer's educational policy helped found an elementary school, a training school for mallams, a school for the sons of Emirs and a technical school. The objective of the schools was not to promote European culture but to preserve the culture and social life of Northern Nigeria and to train pupils for the Native Administration and in the work of craft. The schools were the first non-Quranic schools in the Northern Protectorate. In 1913, provincial elementary schools were established in Katsina and Sokoto. In 1914, upon the amalgamation of Nigeria, Vischer was appointed Director of Education for the Northern Region. Though, he was officially the director, he spent most of his years during the Great War working for the War Office and for the Secret Intelligence Services. He resigned his position with the colonial service in 1919. in 1923, he became the honorable secretary of the Advisory Committee on Education in the British colonies in Africa and a year later was involved in the foundation of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures. References Colonial Administrative Service officers History of Northern Nigeria