A feature of these publications is the high-quality illustrations made by engravers like Wilson Lowry of art work supplied by specialist draftsmen like John Farey, Jr. Encyclopaedias were published in Scotland, as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United Kingdom.

The first Scottish Liberal to become prime minister was the Earl of Rosebery, from 1894 – 95, like Aberdeen before him a product of the English education system.

The Scottish Education Department introduced a Leaving Certificate Examination in 1888 to set national standards for secondary education and in 1890 school fees were abolished, creating a state-funded national system of free basic education and common examinations.

Well informed by his education and Scottish upbringing on theological matters, he dealt shortly with the peevish legacy of Elizabethan Puritanism, and tried to pursue an eirenic religious policy in which he was arbiter.

The Scottish Government is responsible for all issues that are not explicitly reserved to the United Kingdom Parliament at Westminster, by the Scotland Act ; including NHS Scotland, education, justice, rural affairs, and transport.

A major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment during the 18th century, in the 19th century ( while continuing to educate the upper classes ), Glasgow became a pioneer in British higher education by providing for the needs of students from the growing urban and commercial middle classes.

The efforts of the SCDS became quite popular, and its influence on the training of physical education teachers meant that most Scottish children learn at least a minimum of SCD during school.

With the intellectual benefits of having established Europe's first public education system since classical antiquity Scottish thinkers began questioning assumptions previously taken for granted ; and with Scotland's traditional connections to France, then in the throes of the Enlightenment, the Scots began developing a uniquely practical branch of humanism to the extent that Voltaire said, " We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization.

In August 2011 his Scottish girlfriend gave birth to their first son called Riley and he expressed his desire for his new born son to get a university education.

Alexander Bain ( 11 June 1818 – 18 September 1903 ) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism who was a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and education reform.

" Subsection 9: If the Scottish Ministers think it desirable to do so in the interests of education, training or research, they may grant a license to a person to publicly display the body or, as the case may be, the part, and a person is authorized under this subsection to so display a body or a part of a body if, at the time of the display he is licensed under this subsection.

At the time, the opposition education secretary Tim Yeo argued that this low majority made the passing of the law due to Scottish MPs voting to introduce tuition fees that Scottish students attending university in Scotland would not have to pay.

During the reign of Henry IV Humphrey received a scholar's education, while his elder brothers fought on the Welsh and Scottish borders.

Her father, William Graham, was Scottish and her mother, Susan, was Cornish and had arranged for a wealthy aunt in Cornwall to pay for her children's education.

Fuck Abstinence is a Scottish Socialist Youth Women's Group campaign that seeks to educate young women denied adequate sex education through the distribution of information on reproductive rights and to campaign for guarantees of such education in schools.

* Standard Grade, a Scottish certificate of education, roughly equivalent to the English and Welsh GCSE

After formal education at the University of St Andrews, Fergusson followed an essentially bohemian life course in Edinburgh, the city of his birth, then at the height of intellectual and cultural ferment as part of the Scottish enlightenment.

The Federation of Student Nationalists ( FSN ) ( sometimes termed SNP Students ) is the student wing of the Scottish National Party ( SNP ), representing students in Scottish higher education.

The school is unique in the Scottish state sector in that it contains both Primary and Secondary departments, providing education for children from 4 to 18, and in that it has Grant Maintained status and is independent from local government control.

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education ( HMIe ) was an executive agency of the Scottish Government, responsible for the inspection of public and independent, primary and secondary schools, as well as further education colleges, community learning, Local Authority Education Departments and teacher education.

In the Scottish borders country, a system of beacon fires were at one time established to warn of incursions by the English.

On 16 June, Dewar set out the legislative programme for the Executive which included: an Education bill to improve standards in Scottish schools ; land reform to give right of access to the countryside, a bill to abolish the feudal system of land tenure ; and a bill to establish National Parks in Scotland.

Members of the Anglo-Norman nobility took up places in the Scottish aristocracy and he introduced a system of feudal land tenure, which produced knight service, castles and an available body of heavily armed cavalry.

Scottish law remained separate from English law, and the religious system was not changed.

Historians have emphasised that the flexibility and dynamism of the Scottish banking system contributed significantly to the rapid development of the economy in the 19th century.

They joined to form the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) in 1934, with the goal of creating an independent Scotland, but it enjoyed little electoral success in the Westminster system.

Although not reaching its 1970s peak in Westminster elections, the SNP had more success in the Scottish Parliamentary elections with their system of mixed member proportional representation.

* John Brown ( doctor ) ( 1735 – 1788 ), Scottish physician who developed his own medical “ system ”

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

Overall majorities are unusual in the Additional Member system that is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, which was specially designed by the Labour UK government in 1999 to prevent any party gaining overall control of the parliament.

In the Scottish Parliament the Shetland constituency elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) by the first past the post system.

* The Alternative Vote system is used for by-elections in Scottish local councils.

This term corresponding to the jurisdiction of the Sheriff in the Scottish legal system.

John Logie Baird ( 13 August 188814 June 1946 ) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube.

Technical difficulties with the system prevented its further development, but some of the original phonodiscs have been preserved, and have since been restored by Donald McLean, a Scottish electrical engineer.

The Scottish Green Party has had success in the devolved Scottish Parliament and the Irish Green Party in Northern Ireland has had success in the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly, where the first-past-the-post system is not used.

Neurosis was coined by the Scottish doctor William Cullen in 1769 to refer to " disorders of sense and motion " caused by a " general affection of the nervous system ".

In Scotland, there is a Scottish Qualifications Authority ( SQA ) system for students learning British Sign Language.

Each constituency elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament ( MSP ) by the first past the post system of election, and the region elects seven additional members to produce a form of proportional representation.

Patronymic name conventions are similar in some other nations, including Malaysia ( see Malaysian name ) and other Muslim countries, among most people of the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala ( unlike another Indian state Andhra Pradesh, where ancestral origin village names have become surnames for the people ), in Mongolia and in the Scottish Gaelic personal naming system.

In the early years other teams from Wales, Ireland and Scotland also took part in the competition, with Glasgow side Queen's Park losing the final to Blackburn Rovers in 1884 and 1885 before being barred from entering by the Scottish Football Association.

Eliot spent the next two years editing Lewes's final work Life and Mind for publication, and she found solace with John Walter Cross, a Scottish commission agent whose mother had recently died.

His most recent film The Angel's Share centres around a young Scottish troublemaker who is given one final opportunity to stay out of jail.

Barnes was sacked in February 2000 and Dalglish was appointed manager, and he guided them to the Scottish League Cup final where they beat Aberdeen 2 – 0 at Hampden Park, and he left the club shortly thereafter.

* May 14 Dundee United FC are crowned Champions of Scotland for the first time in their history by winning the Scottish Premier League on the final day of the league season at the home of their city rivals Dundee FC at Dens Park

For the final stage of the revolution, Maitland appealed to Scottish patriotism to fight French domination.

The First War of Scottish Independence can be loosely divided into four phases: the initial English invasion and success in 1296 ; the campaigns led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and various Scottish Guardians from 1297 until John Comyn negotiated for the general Scottish submission in February 1304 ; the renewed campaigns led by Robert the Bruce following his killing of The Red Comyn in Dumfries in 1306 to his and the Scottish victory at Bannockburn in 1314 ; and a final phase of Scottish diplomatic initiatives and military campaigns in Scotland, Ireland and Northern England from 1314 until the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328.

This the Scottish king did, but the final straw was Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military service in the war against France.

Pertwee's final film role was in a short film, " Cloud Cuckoo " for Scottish Screen, released on 18 June 1994.

By 1876 Rangers had their first international player, with Moses McNeil representing Scotland in a match against Wales, and by 1877 Rangers had reached a Scottish Cup final.

Rangers ' first ever Scottish Cup win came in 1894 after a 3 – 1 victory over rivals Celtic in the final.

A second consecutive league title was won by a record 21 point margin, the club securing a domestic double with a 4 – 0 Scottish Cup final victory over Aberdeen.

Rangers also successfully defended the Scottish Cup, a 33rd competition triumph, defeating Falkirk 1 – 0 in the final.

Culhwch (, with the final consonant of Scottish " loch "), in Welsh mythology, is the son of Cilydd son of Celyddon and Goleuddydd, a cousin of Arthur and the protagonist of the story Culhwch and Olwen ( the earliest of the medieval Welsh tales usually, but erroneously, referred to collectively as the Mabinogion ).

Ultimately the inaugural CWC was contested by just 10 clubs ( with Fiorentina of Italy winning the two-legged final against the Scottish team Rangers F. C.

2008 Scottish Cup semi final result on the scoreboard at Hampden Park

Royal Assent is the final stage in the legislative process for Acts of the Scottish Parliament.

The Scottish setting, the artists in the colony, the train-ticket puzzle, and the final chase place this triumph among the four or five chefs d ' oeuvre from her hand.

Concrete caisson structures, pioneered by the Condeep concept, often have in-built oil storage in tanks below the sea surface and these tanks were often used as a flotation capability, allowing them to be built close to shore ( Norwegian fjords and Scottish firths are popular because they are sheltered and deep enough ) and then floated to their final position where they are sunk to the seabed.