The Calcutta University Commission (Sadler Commission), appointed to study the problems of Calcutta University, was set up in:

The Calcutta University Commission, headed by Sir Michael Sadler, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds, was appointed in 1917 to study the problems of Calcutta University; it submitted its report in 1919.

Members:

It included Indian members such as Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee (Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University) and Dr Ziauddin Ahmad.

Main recommendations:

• School education should be of 12 years, and students should enter university after the intermediate stage, not after matriculation.
• Intermediate colleges should be set up, either attached to high schools or as separate institutions, for a two-year course before university.
• The degree course should be of three years after the intermediate stage.
• A separate Board of Secondary and Intermediate Education should be set up to manage these stages.
• Universities should be unitary, residential, teaching and autonomous bodies, rather than only examining bodies.
• The government should reduce its control over universities.
• Facilities should be provided for the training of teachers, and for applied science and technology.
• Women's education should be encouraged, and a special board for women's education set up.

Results:

• Many of its recommendations were applied to other universities in India.
• Several new universities were set up, such as those at Mysore (1916), Patna (1917), Banaras (1916), Aligarh (1920), Dacca (1921) and Lucknow (1921).
• The Inter-University Board was set up (1925).

Earlier and later commissions on education:

• The Indian Universities Commission (Raleigh Commission, 1902).
• The Hartog Committee (1929), on the growth of education.
• The Sargent Plan (1944).
• After Independence, the University Education Commission (Radhakrishnan Commission, 1948-49).

Why not the other options?

• ✗1902 was the year of the Raleigh Commission.
• ✗1882 and 1929 were the years of other education commissions.