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.

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.

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