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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]
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.
A French illustration of teaching from the late fourteenth century. From the early Middle Ages there were bardic schools, that trained individuals in the poetic and musical arts, but because Scotland was a largely oral society, little evidence of what they taught has survived. [1]
The King Edward VI School, Morpeth (1552) (formerly a chantry school, established in the 14th century, abolished in 1547) Leeds Grammar School (1552) Shrewsbury School (1552) Hutton Grammar School (1552) King Edward's School, Witley (1553) King Edward VI School, Southampton (1553) Tonbridge School (1553) Clitheroe Royal Grammar School (1554)
A central institution (CI) was a type of higher education institute in 20th and 21st-century Scotland, responsible for providing degree-level education but emphasising teaching rather than research. Some had a range of courses similar to polytechnics elsewhere in the United Kingdom while others were more specialised such as the art colleges and ...
"Education and nationalism: The discourse of education policy in Scotland." Discourse: Studies in the cultural politics of education 31.3 (2010): 335–350. Clark, Margaret, and Pamela Munn. Education in Scotland (Taylor & Francis, 1998) online. Munn, Pamela, et al. "Schools for the 21st century: the national debate on education in Scotland."
John Strong CBE FRSE FEIS LLD (15 January 1868 – 7 October 1945) was a 20th-century British educationalist. He was one of the creators of the Education Act (Scotland) 1918. This brought the many poorly-funded private Catholic schools in Scotland (mainly in the Glasgow area) into state control. [1]
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