The recommendations of the Hunter Commission for the proper system of education in India however did not meet with success. The education procedure in India was not carried on in accordance with the s recommendations of the Commission. Hence lord Curzon after becoming the governor general of India sought to introduce the reforms in all fields of administration and also in education. In September 1901,caurzon summoned the highest educational officers of the Government throughout India and representatives of universities at a round table Conference at Simla. The conference was called on in order to review and survey the condition of education in India. According to the Viceroy Curzon, the sole aim of the Conference was to devise a new plan, a new trend of education in India. The conference adopted near about 150 resolutions, which included almost every conceivable branch of education. Also a Commissioner was appointed under the presidency of s Lord Raleigh on 27th January 1902 to enquire into the coalition and prospects of the universities in India. The conferences also recommended proposals for improving the constitutions and working of the universities. Evidently, the Commission was precluded from reporting on primary or secondary education. As a result of the report of the recommendation of the commission, the Indian Universities Act was passed in the year1904.

The Indian Universities Act proposed for several changes in the field of university education. By this Act the universities were desired to make provision for the promotion of the study and the research, to appoint educated professors and lecturers, set up university laboratories and the libraries and undertake direct instructions of students. The university Act also declared that the number of Fellows in the University should not be less than fifty and not more than hundred. According to the university Act a Fellow should normally hold the office for a stipulated period of six years rather than for whole life. Most of the fellows of the universities were to be nominated by the government. The elective element at the university of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay was to be twenty each and in case of other universities only fifteen. Under the Indian universities Act proposed by Lord Curzon, the government control over the universities was further increased. The government was vested with the powers to veto. Under the Indian universities Act proposed by Lord Curzon, the government control over the universities was further increased. The Government was vested with powers to veto the regulations passed by the senate Houses of the University. The Government could make additions and alterations in the regulations framed by the Senate House, the highest administrative body of the University. Moreover the government was given to frame regulations for the working procedure of the universities. Hence the Indian Universities Act entitled the government of India with more power than the senate house. The University Act of 1904 also extended the University control over the private colleges. It was laid down by the Act that the affiliation and the periodical inspection of the Syndicate should be carried on in a strict way. The private colleges were required to maintain proper standard of efficiency in their procedure of instruction. It was laid down that the government approval was necessary for the grants of affiliation or disaffiliation colleges. The University Act empowered the governor-General in Council to define the territorial limits of the university or decided the affiliation of the colleges to the universities.

However the new measures adopted by the Indian universities Act was opposed by the nationalist opinion both outside and inside the Legislative Assembly. The universities Act established the Government control wholly on the universities. Due to this the universities lost their power for framing recommendations about their working procedure. The Saddler Commission of 1917also commented that the Universities Act of 1904 made the Indian universities among the most completely governmental universities of the world. According to the Indian opinion, Curzon sought to reduce the status of the Indian Universities to a department of state government. The policy of Curzon also damaged the development of the private enterprises in the field of education. However a good outcome of Curzon`s policy was the sanction of a grant of Rs. 5 lakhs per annum for five years for the development of higher education and universities. Since then, Government grants have become a permanent feature of the government of India.