God’s NAME TO BEGIN WITH,

THE MOST BENEFICENT AND THE

MOST MERCIFUL”
-By
Anchal Srivastava
AGENDA/OUTLINE

 Introduction

 Aims and Objective

 Recommendations

 Strengths and Weaknesses

William Wilson Hunter
INTRODUCTION:
 Hunter Commission was a commission appointed by British

Government to review the progress of education in the country

since the Wood Dispatch of 1854.
 Hunter Commission was set up in 1882 under the chairmanship of

William Hunter.
 This Commission emphasized its recommendations on its Primary

and Secondary Education.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
The commission was appointed with the following aims:
 To enquire into the manner in which effect had been given to the
principles of the Despatch of 1854.
 To assess the position of primary education in India and to
suggest measures for its reform.
 To enquire into the position of the State institutions and their
importance.
 To evaluate the work of missionaries in the field of
education.
 To enquire into Government attitude towards private
enterprise.
 The Commission also undertook an enquiry into the conditions
of secondary education and to suggest measures for its
improvement.
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RELIGIOUS SECONDARY
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EDUCATION OF
BACKWARD HIGHER
RECOMMENDATIONS EDUCATIO
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WOMEN
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RECOMMENDATIONS:
Primary Education:
 Primary education should be regarded as education of the
masses.
 Education should be able to train the people for self-
dependence.
 Medium of Instruction in primary education should be the mother
tongue.
 Appointment of teachers should be made by the district authority
and approved by the government.
 Spread of primary education for the tribal and backward people
should be the responsibility of the Government.
 Fees should be example to students on the basis of their
 School houses and furniture's should be simple and
economical.
 Normal Schools should be established for the training of
teachers.
 Curriculum should include useful subjects like agriculture,
elements of natural and physical science and the native
method of arithmetic and measurement etc.
School equipments should be economical and less
expensive.
Secondary Education:
 The administrative responsibility on Secondary education
should be handed over to the efficient and educated people.

 English should remain as medium of instruction in the

Secondary stage.

 The fees charged in aided secondary schools should

be
schools.
considerably lower than the fees charged in
Government
Higher Education:
The Commission had also made recommendation in regard to higher education.
These recommendations may be summed up under the following heads:
 While giving grants-in-aid to the colleges, the number of the teachers,
expenditures of the college, efficiency and local needs must also be kept in
mind.

 Such varied and vast curricular should be arranged in these colleges so that the
students must have the subject of there choice and aptitude.
 The number of students receiving free education should be limited.

 Private colleges should be authorized to receive lesser fee as compared

to the Government colleges
 While appointing teachers such Indians should be preferred who have
received education in European universities.
Education Department:
 The number of inspectors in every Province should

be raised so that every institution may be

inspected.

 As far as possible Indians should be appointed on

the post of District Inspector of Schools.

 As far as possible the Inspector of the Primary

schools should be local.

Women Education:
 Arrangements of Public Funds.

 Appointment of lady teachers.

 Appointment of lady inspectresses.

 Free education for women.

 Different curriculum for girls.

 Decent arrangement of hostels for girls.

 Liberal Grant-in-aid for girl education.

 Special arrangement for education of ‘Pardah’

observing ladies.
 Arrangements for Secondary Education.
Muslim Education:
 The commission recommended that every effort
should be made to popularize Muslim education.
 Special funds should be allocated for it.
 More scholarships should be given to Muslim
students as they are unable to pay the fee.
Education of Backward Classes:
 Children of these tribes were not being charged any fee.

 The education of students should be such as may help them to

establish contact with their neighbors.

 It was also recommended that subjects taught should be of the most

elementary character.

 It was made recommendatory on the part of school teachers and

inspectors to make judicious effects to remove caste prejudices.

Religious Education:
 Religious education of any sort should not be given in the

public schools.

 Religious education may be imparted in the private

institutions and the Government shall have nothing to

do with it.

 While giving grant-in-aid to institutions imparting

religious
Strengths of Hunter Commission
Strengths:-
 It was the first commission which gave wide and comprehensive
recommendations.
 This commission gave some important suggestion for
improvement of Muslim education.
 The progress in primary schools from 1882 to 1901 was
displayed by number of students in them, rising from 22
million in 1882 to 32 million in 1901.
 In the secondary school, this number increased from 42,993
in 1886 to 6,33,728 in 1901
 in the colleges, the number of students increased from 11,501 in
1886 to 23,009 in 1901
. Weaknesses of Hunter Commission
Weaknesses:-
 Transfer of the control of primary education to the inexperienced
local bodies.
 Failure to introduce compulsory primary education.
 Inadequate grant from the Provincial government as only one-third
of the total expenditure was given as grant to the local bodies.
THE END