Question

state the features if wood's despatch of 1854​

Answer 1

✔As the Wood’s Despatch promoted education rejecting the ‘downward filtration theory‘, aspirants should know all the spheres where the despatch had an impact on:

Primary Education

• Vernacular languages were to be promoted
• Education Department was to set up in every province
• At least one government school be opened in every district
• Systematic method of education

Higher Education

• Universities on the model of the London. university be established in big cities like Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.
• Systematic method of education.

Women’s Education

• Promoted female education on all levels.

Hierarchy in education was systemised

• Primer schools in villages (Bottom)
• Anglo-Vernacular High Schools.
• Affiliated colleges at district level.
• Affiliating universities in the presidency towns.

English Education

• English was made the medium of instruction for higher studies.

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Answer 2

When in 1854 he sent a dispatch to Lord Dalhousie, the then Governor-General of India, Wood suggested that primary schools must adopt vernacular languages, high schools must adopt Anglo-vernacular language and at college-level English should be the medium of education. This is known as Wood's despatch.