In accordance with this, in 1923 the British Government established the Advisory Committee on Education in British Tropical Africa (with the word ‘tropical’ removed to broaden its jurisdiction). With its establishment, for the first time, the colonial authority would be uniformly administering its educational goals across all British African colonies. Programs begun under the new committee were aimed at increasing the “self-sufficiency” of village economies and providing community incentives to counteract flight into big cities. Educational practices under the CEBA came to be known as ‘adapted’, as it was sought to adjust western education to the contemporary European understanding of the ‘African Mind’ as inherently different -  which is to say, education was often administered through local contexts and practices, all the while teaching western curriculum. In his essay "British Colonial Education in Africa: Policy and Practice in the Era of Trusteeship", Aaron Windel of Bowdoin College describes this,