User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/Tamriel Total War II: Rules and Guidelines/@comment-24696651-20160202164646/@comment-17114085-20160202170825

Yes, the Court Wizard oversees the education. He isn't the one that teaches the children everything, as he wouldn't be able to teach something that he doesn't know. But they oversee the education nonetheless, getting other teachers for specific skills when they need to.

Population is irrelevant for the RP. The current ones are just following the same ratio in the Skyrim games. In the lore the population of cities would be over 110,000 easily. In the late Third Era that was the population of Daggerfall.