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The ragged school movement attempted to provide free education to destitute children. The ideas were taken up in Aberdeen where Sheriff William Watson founded the House of Industry and Refuge, and they were championed by Scottish minister Thomas Guthrie who wrote Plea for Ragged Schools (1847), after which they rapidly spread across Britain. [37]
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. By the end of the 15th century schools were also being organised for girls and universities were founded at St Andrews , Glasgow and Aberdeen .
Gordonstoun (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr d ən s t ən / GOR-dən-stən) is a co-educational independent school for boarding and day pupils in Moray, Scotland.It is named after the 150-acre (60-hectare) estate owned by Sir Robert Gordon in the 17th century; the school now uses this estate as its campus.
The recorded history of Scotland begins with the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, when the province of Britannia reached as far north as the Antonine Wall. North of this was Caledonia , inhabited by the Picti , whose uprisings forced Rome's legions back to Hadrian's Wall .
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School boards in Scotland; School Establishment Act 1616; Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women; History of schools in Scotland; Scottish Certificate of Education; Scottish education in the eighteenth century; Scottish education in the nineteenth century; Scottish Leaving Certificate
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
The Enlightenment in Scotland: national and international perspectives (2015) Eddy, Matthew Daniel. The Language of Mineralogy: John Walker, Chemistry and the Edinburgh Medical School, 1750–1800 (2008). Goldie, Mark. "The Scottish Catholic Enlightenment," The Journal of British Studies Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan. 1991), pp. 20–62 in JSTOR; Graham ...