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In Scotland, students transfer from primary to secondary education at 11 or 12 years old. Pupils usually attend the same secondary school as their peers, as all secondaries have 'intake primaries'. Pupils attend either a non-denominational school or a Roman Catholic school, according to their family's beliefs.
Education in Scotland is provided in state schools, private schools and by individuals through homeschooling.Mandatory education in Scotland begins for children in Primary 1 (P1) at primary school and ends in Fifth Year (S5) at secondary school.
In the 20th century Scottish secondary education expanded, particularly for girls, but the universities began to fall behind those in England and Europe in investment and expansion of numbers. The government of the education system became increasingly centred on Scotland, with the final move of the ministry of education to Edinburgh in 1939.
The increased opportunities for girls in secondary education was a major feature of the twentieth century. Unlike the Education Act 1944 in England and Wales, the Education (Scotland) Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 37) was largely a consolidation measure, because universal secondary education had already been in place for over a decade. [5]
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 vocationally orientated education ...
Secondary schools in Scotland (35 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Secondary education in Scotland" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
Second year (also known as S2 in Scotland) is the second year of schooling in secondary schools in Scotland and in the Republic of Ireland, and is roughly equivalent to Year 9 in England and Wales and Year 10 (Third Form) in Northern Ireland. Most pupils are 13 or 14 years old at the end of S2.
Defunct secondary schools in Scotland (13 C, 1 P) Secondary schools in Dumfries and Galloway (1 C, 12 P) Secondary schools in Dundee (2 C, 7 P) E.