The Simon Commission set up a committee on education which was considered as:

The committee on education attached to the Simon Commission was known as the Auxiliary Committee.

It was chaired by Sir Philip Hartog and is often called the Hartog Committee.

It reviewed the growth of education since the 1919 reforms and stressed consolidation over expansion.

A university committee would deal only with higher education, which does not fit this body's wider brief.

A provincial or federal committee describes political and administrative units, not this education review body.

The Hartog Committee criticised the wastage and stagnation at the primary stage.