27 Jan 1902 Jahr - Indian Universities Commission
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Appointment of Indian Universities Commission by Lord Curzon
On 13 Jan 1902 Curzon wrote to Hamilton to propose the education commision consisting of 6 permanent members. Chairman of the Commision was Thomas Raleigh and other members were Hewett, Pedler, Bourne, Mackichan and Syed H.Bilgrami. Surendranath Banerjee raised a voice against absence of Hindus on the Commission- Gooroodas Banerjee was appointed by Curzon after this strong opposition.
Orange was selected as the Director-General of education on recommendation of Sadler who was first offered the post. The work began in Madras -18th Feb: examined 156 witnesses including 63 Indians. On 9th June recommendations were made for reforming the Senate, giving more power to the affiliated colleges, improvement in curriculum, exam patterns, research, focus on student scholarships.
The commission's recommended focus of universities to be teaching based, importance to be given for quality of education and not the quantity of institutions, colleges had to held undergraduate courses while the specialized courses had to be dealt by the experts in the university, the territorial boundaries of the college- university proximity were redefined and stricter rules had to be implemented on affiliated colleges senate had to consist all teachers, policy makers, govt. Representatives and the number of members have to be restricted. Independent governing bodies of the colleges had to care of their resources. These were opposed by newly forming nationalist institutions. These recommendations were applied in Indian Universities Act 1904
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History of Education in India during Colonial Times- 1700-1947
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