Changes in Education

• Educational developments were overseen by Delyanovnew university charter in 1884 made appointments of chancellors, deans and professors subject to the approval of the Education Ministry
• Delyanov also closed universities for women and abolished seperate university courts. All university life was closely supervised, with students forbidden from gathering in groups of more than five
• Children from the lowest classes were to be restricted to primary educationprimary education was placed firmly in the hands of  the Orthodox Church
• only 21% of the population were literate by the time of the first census in 1897.
• These education policies were of dubious value, since they both ran counter to the government's attempts to promote economic modernisation and failed to prevent student involvement in illegal politcal movements, particularly the 1890s.