Write short note on Universities Act of 1904

Write short note on Universities Act of 1904

Curzon took a serious view of the fall in the standard of education and discipline in the educational institutions. In his view the universities had degenerated into factories for producing political revolutionaries. To set the educational system in order, he instituted in 1902, a University Commission to go into the entire a question of University Education in the country. On the basis of the findings and recommendations of the commission, Curzon brought in the Indian Universities, Act of 1904, which brought all the universities in India under the control of the Government.