The System of Public Education in the Kutaisi Province in 1846-1917. Part 3

A series of articles is devoted to the study of the education system in the Kutaisi province of the Russian Empire in the period from 1846 to 1917. In this, the third and final article of the cycle, the educational system of the Kutaisi province in the period from 1902 to 1917 is analyzed. The main source was the annual "Reports of the trustee of the Caucasian Educational District on the state of educational institutions" of the Ministry of Public Education for 1904-1914. The methodological basis of the research was both special historical (historical-comparative, historical-system, historical-statistical (quantitative/mathematical), and general scientific (synthesis, analysis, generalization, classification and categorization) methods. Based on the analyzed data, it is concluded that education in the province developed quite inconsistently. The growth of male students of secondary educational institutions was 1.31 times, female students - 1.43 times. The total number of secondary school students has increased by 1.36 times over 11 years. The growth was provided primarily by the consolidation of educational institutions, and the years of a sharp increase in students were replaced by falls. The lower educational institutions did not grow at all in terms of the number of students, but the number of educational institutions founded in remote sparsely populated corners of the province increased (the number of lower educational organizations increased by one and a half times during the period 1904-1915). Primary educational institutions began to develop rapidly with the adoption of the law of May 3, 1908, as a result of which the number of children enrolled in primary education increased by 1.7 times. The women's education has also been developing very actively: the number of female students has steadily increased from year to year.