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From the 1970s the government preferred to expand higher education in the non-university sector and by the late 1980s roughly half of students in higher education were in colleges. Under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 , the distinction between universities and colleges was removed, creating new universities at Abertay , Glasgow ...
Carving of a 17th-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh. The history of education in Scotland in its modern sense of organised and institutional learning, began in the Middle Ages, when Church choir schools and grammar schools began educating boys.
Perth High School, opened in 1950. The Education (Scotland) Act 1918 introduced the principle of universal free secondary education, although, due to financial crisis and resistance from the SED, it took almost two decades to implement. Most of the advanced divisions of the primary schools became junior secondaries, where students received a ...
Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women; Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women; Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004; Education (Scotland) Act 1872; Education Act 1496; Education Act 1633; Education Act 1646; Education Act 1696; Education in early modern Scotland; Education in Medieval Scotland
Education in Scotland (Taylor & Francis, 1998) online. Munn, Pamela, et al. "Schools for the 21st century: the national debate on education in Scotland." Research Papers in Education 19.4 (2004): 433–452. Online; Passow, A. Harry et al. The National Case Study: An Empirical Comparative Study of Twenty-One Educational Systems. (1976) online
List of Schools of Ambition; Scottish Community Education Council; Scottish Council for Research in Education; Scottish Council of Independent Schools; The Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour; Scottish Funding Council; Scottish Gaelic-medium education; Scottish Public Pensions Agency; Scottish Qualifications Authority; Scottish Science and ...
The Scottish Certificate of Education (or SCE) was a Scottish secondary education certificate, used in schools and sixth form institutions, from 1962 until 1999. It replaced the older Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) and the Scottish Leaving Certificate (SLC), and it was the Scottish equivalent of the General Certificate of Education (or GCE), used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The lists of schools in Scotland are divided into several articles: Private (independent) schools in Scotland; State schools in City Council Areas; State schools in Council Areas A–D; State schools in Council Areas E–H; State schools in Council Areas I–R; State schools in Council Areas S–W; Gaelic medium schools in Scotland