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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
Ciudad Mitad del Mundo as seen from the west from the 30-meter-high terrace of the museum The yellow line divides the 2 hemispheres. Older monument to the equator in Calacalí (2008) The Ciudad Mitad del Mundo (Middle of the World City) is a tract of land owned by the prefecture of the province of Pichincha, Ecuador.
The Education Act 1496 (c. 87) was an act of the Parliament of Scotland that required landowners to send their eldest sons to school to study Latin, arts and law. This made schooling compulsory for the first time in the world.
Kilmarnock Academy is the only school in Scotland to have educated two Nobel Prize Laureates [36] [37] Secondary education is provided by secondary schools throughout Scotland, both in the state and independent sector. The vast majority of schools in the state sector are administered directly by the local Education Authority, which is ...
English/Scottish Yes The High School of Glasgow [23] £16,959 n/a Scottish Yes Dollar Academy [24] £16,677 £38,601 Scottish Yes St Margaret's School for Girls, Aberdeen [25] £16,632 n/a Scottish No International School Aberdeen [26] £16,535 n/a IB No George Heriot's [27] £16,440 n/a Scottish Yes Clifton Hall School, Edinburgh [28] £16,380 ...
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 Scotland Street School, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and built 1903–06. Education in Scotland in the twentieth century includes all forms of organised education in Scotland, such as elementary, secondary and higher education. The centre of the education system became more focused on Scotland throughout the century, with the ...
· Monumento Mitad del Mundo, located to the north of Quito, apparently built in honor of the French Geodesic Mission, (not precise but most known). · Quitsato Sundial, located near Cayambe, (which according to studies, is located at latitude 0°0'0", and measured with modern equipment and with strong precision).