INSTITUTION FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN INDIA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2618, 28 August 1882, Page 3

INSTITUTION FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN INDIA.

The "Friend of India ’’says—“We have read with much interest a prospectus of a ladies’ college projected (if not already working) by rhe Indian Beform Association,. The prospectus and an article in the last number of the " Liberal ” are extremely suggestive, and wo hops to take an c-'-r'y opportunity of commenting more full.; on the details of the scheme thin we arc able to do now. At present we osn only stale briefly, and in very general terms, what the : Institution for the Higher Education of Women ’ i* intended to do for the sex. Them is nowadays a sufficient number of girls’ schools, doing a creditable amount of efficient work, to eugeest and call for some provision for the higher education of those who are willing, and are permitted, to pursue their studies after they have pasted through these elementary schools. At present the only course of study, we may say, that :e get before such girls is the course prescribed fay the Calcutta University, and, as b wall known, the University examinations of lata years have been rendered interesting successful competition of several fcmala^^H

didates. But, though the sex has proved its capacity to compete at rxamina’ lions framed for males, the Indian Reform Association is of opinion that the course of study prescribed by the University is not well suited to the female mind, end does not secure the sort of training which future wives and mothers need. Indeed the association appears to think that it tends to nnsex them, and is -sally a sort of degradation to them. W n rosy not be prepared to adopt quite so strong s view of the matter, but we are at one with the association in thinking that a very much more suitable training might be provid'd for the young women of Bengal than they or.r got as undergraduates of the Calcutta University. Many of our readers will, wo are Rure, ngrao in this opinion, and will be interested to learn that the “institution” now being started in Calcutta will provide teaching on the following subjects • Elementary science, ethics, laws of health, grammar and composition, history, geography, domestic economy, and exemplary Bindoo characters, together with arithmetic, drawing, and needlework. There will be o-suel written examinations, and rewards in the shape of scholarships, certificates of merit, and prizes. The management will be in the hinds of a syndicate, presided over by Bibce Kabbah Ohundsr Ben, and a ladies’ committee will exercise cot tain duties of snjieryigim^