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.

In the Scottish education system the final year of school is usually known as Sixth Year or S6.

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 1864 William Wallace Mitchell ( 1803 – 1884 ), a Glasgow Cotton Merchant, published his " Manual of Bowls Playing " following his work as the secretary formed in 1849 by Scottish bowling clubs which became the basis of the rules of the modern game.

M ' Naghten was a Scottish woodcutter who killed the secretary to the prime minister, Edward Drummond, in a botched attempt to assassinate the prime minister himself.

In 1843 Peel was the target of a failed assassination attempt ; a criminally-insane Scottish woodsman named Daniel M ' Naghten stalked him for several days before accidentally killing Peel's personal secretary Edward Drummond instead.

In September 1564, the Scottish Parliament restored Matthew Stewart's rights and titles as Earl of Lennox, and listened to a lengthy speech from the Queen's secretary William Maitland, who offered ;" it may be affirmid Scotland in na manis age that presentlie levis wes in gritter tranquillitie.

He became secretary of the Scottish Socialist Federation.

By 1892 he was involved in the Scottish Socialist Federation, acting as its secretary from 1895.

His father François was born at Ham, in Picardy, and being of a somewhat adventurous spirit, crossed the English Channel and became a British citizen and the secretary of a Scottish nobleman.

The Whigs in Canning's coalition now persuaded him that a Scottish manager was unnecessary ; the home secretary could do all the work with a native adviser or two.

At a public meeting in Glasgow on 25 August 1888 the Scottish Labour Party ( not the same party as the modern Scottish Labour Party ) was formed, with Hardie becoming the party's first secretary.

Scottish education secretary Michael Russell MSP was born and spent the early years of his life in Bromley.

When Henry McLeish announced that he would stand down from his UK Parliament seat in Central Fife on moving to the Scottish Parliament, MacDougall was thought to be likely to be beaten to the selection as his successor by the former Labour Party general secretary Alex Rowley.

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

Head of Campaigns Louise Robertson is the partner of John Park, a Labour member of the Scottish Parliament, whilst both her predecessors, Steve Taylor and Mike Hobday have very close links to the Labour Party, being a CLP secretary and former PPC, respectively.

In 1850, the Moldavian scholar Ion Ionescu de la Brad proposed yet another project, supported by Ion Ghica and by the Scottish diplomat David Urquhart, the secretary of the United Kingdom's Embassy in the Ottoman Empire.

" The Conservatives shadow education and health secretary Tim Yeo said the result was an " utter humiliation " for ministers and said that the vote had only been won because of the votes of Scottish MPs who had voted to impose fees on English students which would not apply north of the border.

Robertson was a toolmaker and engineer and was assistant divisional organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering Union 1954-61 and secretary of the Scottish Iron and Steel Trades Joint Committee.

Richard Bannatyne ( died 1605 ) was a Scottish clergyman and scribe who served as secretary to John Knox.

In his decade as match secretary for the first team, the club won two League championships in 1891 and 1899, as well as three Scottish Cups in 1894, 1897 and 1898.

The author of " Life and Correspondence of David Hume ", he was secretary of the Scottish Prison Board ( 1854-77 ), and Historiographer Royal ( 1867-1881 ).

Later he was secretary to the Duke of Monmouth and had the management of his Scottish estates.