Complex sentence: The growing emphasis on education in the Middle Ages became part of a humanist and then Protestant programme to extend and reform learning, which resulted in the expansion of the school system and the foundation of six university colleges by the end of the sixteenth century.
Split into simpler sentences: The growing emphasis on education in the Middle Ages became part of a humanist and then Protestant programme to extend and reform learning. It resulted in the expansion of the school system and the foundation of six university colleges by the end of the sixteenth century.