Explanation: The Educational Dispatch of Charles Wood (1854) outlined a comprehensive scheme of education-primary, secondary, collegiate.

• Departments of Public Instruction and a university for each of the three Presidencies were organized for the purpose.
• University of Madras was established under this plan (1857), along with universities in Bombay and Calcutta.
• Dalhousie modified the policy of Macaulay by encouraging educational institutions in vernaculars too.
• He also agreed to the principle of grants-in-aid to private effort, irrespective of caste or creed.

Source: Tamil Nadu NCERT