 The net enrollment ratio in primary education was maximum in Western (70 %), children entering first grade of primary school reaching last grade of primary education was 100 per cent in Northern Bank and the ratios of boys against girls in primary, secondary and tertiary education was maximum (1.13) in Lower River as of 2007.The Gambia, along with modern-day Senegal, were colonies of France and Britain until 1894 when it became a British colony.Both the countries gained independence in 1965 and operated in a federation called Senegambia from 1982.