Multiple choice

Consider the following statements with reference to Wood's Despatch:

  1. Institution of a regular system of scholarship to enable meritorious students to pursue the higher courses of study.
  2. Helping the educational institutions founded by private efforts to obtain grants from government funds.
  3. Provision of moral and religious education as an important component of curriculum. Which of the above were the features of Wood's Despatch?

  1. 1 and 2

  2. 2 and 3

  3. 2 and 3

  4. 1, 2 and 3
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Explanation

Wood's Despatch (1854) emphasized scholarships and grants-in-aid for private institutions, but it explicitly excluded religious education from the curriculum to maintain a secular approach.

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