Heriot-Watt University

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Education Muriel Spark
She would have liked to go on to university, but the depression of the 1930s bore harshly on Edinburgh; she needed to earn her living, and at a time when young people were eager...
Education J. K. Rowling
She then enrolled at Moray House (a teacher training college then attached to Heriot-Watt University but now part of Edinburgh University ) for a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education, without which she would not be qualified...
Reception Muriel Spark
Three more Scottish universities followed Strathclyde's lead: MS received Honorary DLitts from Edinburgh University in 1989, Aberdeen in 1995, and St Andrews in 1998. In 1995, she received a DUniv from Heriot-Watt University , where...

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October 1821: The Edinburgh School of Arts was founded...

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October 1821

The Edinburgh School of Arts was founded by Leonard Horner , to educate mechanics, that is workmen, in branches of physical science deemed to be practical in their trades.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1525
Scotland, James. The History of Scottish Education. University of London Press, 1969, 2 vols.
I: 304, 306

October 1821: The Edinburgh School of Arts was founded...

Building item

October 1821

The Edinburgh School of Arts was founded by Leonard Horner , to educate mechanics, that is workmen, in branches of physical science deemed to be practical in their trades.
The World of Learning. 47th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1997.
1525
Scotland, James. The History of Scottish Education. University of London Press, 1969, 2 vols.
I: 304, 306

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