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 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Minutes of the Science Degrees Committee and Faculty of Science, 1865-1972

 Series — EUA-A-954 - 962
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1
Scope and Contents Minutes of the Science Degrees Committee and Faculty of Science Series consists of details of: letters lists of candidates for exams exam questions details of reports by examiners changes in chairs the move to departments being created around these chairs the relationships with the Faculty of Arts and...
Dates: 1865-1972
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Administration / Faculty of Science and Engineering

Miscellaneous, late 19th century

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/5
Scope and Contents

The Miscellaneous series consists of:


  1. Poems, songs, notes and obituary notices.
Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie

Notebook, 1882-1889

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/10/11
Scope and Contents

Notebook entitled 'Catalogue of Microscopic Sections, James Geikie, 1882)', also containing exam marks for the 'Ladies [Geology] Class' (1889), with enclosed exam papers and notes.

Dates: 1882-1889
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Miscellaneous

Notes on Examinations for the Falconer Fellowship, late 19th century

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/5/3
Scope and Contents

Notes about the two day oral and written examination in Geology and Paleontology for the Falconer Fellowship which was awarded to RA Lundie. Under the Deed of Foundation aspects of Zoology and Botany were also touched upon.

Dates: late 19th century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Miscellaneous

Postcard to Donald Tovey from Julius Rontgen, 09 May 1924

 Item
Identifier: Coll-411/1/1/L1555
Scope and Contents

Postcard, 9 May 1924, Amsterdam, Julius Rontgen to Donald Tovey. Asking Tovey to adjudicate an exam in Amsterdam and to select music for it. Holograph signed.

Dates: 09 May 1924
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Tovey Collection / Papers of Donald Francis Tovey / Correspondence

Reports of the Committee on Examination Procedure and Conference on University Assessment, 1970-1971

 Sub-Series
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/M1/1/8
Scope and Contents

correspondence & reports

Dates: 1970-1971
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Units: Departments etc. / Department of Molecular Biology / Faculty of Science

Schulaufbau und Lehrerbildung in England und Schottland [Educational structure and teacher education in England and Scotland], 1933

 File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/2/22
Scope and Contents

Contains Thomson's typed and handwritten notes, and the final published transcript of the lecture.


The lecture compares the English and Scottish education systems both to each other and to the German system. Thomson discusses private and public schools; examinations; the eleven plus; grammar and modern education; religious schools; and methods of teaching, such as the Dalton Plan.

Dates: 1933
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Unpublished materials authored by Thomson / Lectures / Compiled lectures

Science Degrees Committee Minute Book, 1865-1875

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1/1
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, lists of candidates for exams, exam questions, details of reports by examiners, exam results and changes in Chairs and regulations.

Dates: 1865-1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Administration / Faculty of Science and Engineering / Minutes of the Science Degrees Committee and Faculty of Science

Science Degrees Committee Minute Book, 1876-1892

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACA/SCI/1/2
Scope and Contents

Includes letters, lists of candidates for exams, exam questions details of reports by examiners, changes in chairs and regulations, results of exams. The volume also covers physical and natural science and engineering, public health and agriculture.

Dates: 1876-1892
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of the University of Edinburgh / Academic Administration / Faculty of Science and Engineering / Minutes of the Science Degrees Committee and Faculty of Science

Selection for Higher Education, 6 Nov 1951

 File
Identifier: Coll-1310/3/1/3/8
Scope and Contents The lecture largely concerns how selection for university entrance can be made more fair and equal, beginning at the age of eleven with the eleven-plus examination which determines a child's entry into a grammar or a modern school, the latter of which removes the possibility of attending university. Thomson argues for a mechanism by which pupils wrongly rejected by grammar schools may still enter university. He discusses the influence of industry and...
Dates: 6 Nov 1951
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson / Unpublished materials authored by Thomson / Lectures / Titled <emph>Some non-mathematical papers of my Father's, including some of his Bingley lectures, KEEP, H.T 1963</emph>

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