 The effect of the education act upon the Gaelic language has been described as "disastrous" and the continuation of a general policy (by both Scottish, and post 1707, British) which aimed at Anglicisation.Pressure upon the Scottish Education Department in the years immediately following the act of 1872 saw the gradual reintroduction of certain measures providing for the use of Gaelic in schools.This pressure led to the undertaking by the department of a survey in 1876 which revealed a "distinct majority" of school boards within the Highlands in favour of the inclusion of Gaelic within the curriculum although it also revealed that some of those in Gaelic-speaking areas were against this.