The history of education in Scotland in its modern sense of organised and institutional learning, began in the Middle Ages, when Church choir schools and grammar schools began educating boys. By the e
Carving of a 17th-century classroom with a dominie and his ten scholars from George Heriot's School, Edinburgh
Tower of St Salvator's College, St Andrews, one of the three universities founded in the fifteenth century
A woodcut showing John Mair, one of the most successful products of the Scottish educational system in the late fifteenth century
Andrew Melville, credited with major reforms in Scottish Universities in the sixteenth century
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The University of Edinburgh is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the town council under the authority of a royal charter from King James VI in 1582 and officially o
Interior dome of the McEwan Hall after restoration in 2017
Robert Rollock, Regent (1583–1586) and first principal (1586–1599) of the University of Edinburgh
Main buildings of King James' College in 1647, lying in a double courtyard on the lower left
Frontispiece to earliest laureation (graduation) register (1587)