Indian Educational Policy Being a Resolution Issued by the Governor General in Council on the 11th March 1904

It will now be replaced by more equitable tests of efficiency depending on the number of scholars in attendance the buildings provided for their accommodation the circustances of the locality the qualifications of the teachers the nature of the instruction given and the outlay from other sources such as fees and private endowments or subscriptions. [...] The Education Commission recommended in 1883 that the elementary education of the masses its provision extension and improvement should be that part of the educational system to which the strenuous efforts of the State should be directed in a still larger measure than before." The Government of India fully accept the proposition that the active extension of primary education is one of the most [...] It is true that the commercial value which a knowledge of English commands and the fact that the final examinations of the high schools are conducted in Enlish cause the secondary schools to be subjected to a cetain pressure to introduce prematurely both the teaching of English as a language and its use as the medium of istruction; while for the same reasons the study of the vernacular [...] An increase will be made in the number of teachers of high qualifications to be engaged upon the staff ; and in regulating the studies and discipline of the colleges the aim kept in view throughout will be the preparation of the sons of ruling Chiefs for the duties which await them on lines which r will combin e dvantages of Western knowledge with loyalty to t_ tr k)ns and usages of their famili [...] There is at present no University course of training of a specialized description for business men ; in the field of secondary education the establisment of examinations and the inclusion of commercial subjects in the optional lists of subjects for examination have outstripped the progress made in the organization of courses of instruction.