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PART III. OF APPENDIX.

TRAINING COLLEGES.

TRAINING COLLEGES.

Report for the Year 1900, by T. A. STEWART, Esq., M.A., LL.D.,
His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools, and Inspector of Training
Colleges in Scotland, on the TRAINING COLLEGES of SCOTLAND.

Improvements in

building and equipment.

Edinburgh
Church of
Scotland
College.

United Free
Church
College.

Episcopal
College.

Glasgow

Church of
Scotland
College.

MY LORDS,

I have the honour to present a report on the Training Colleges of Scotland for the year 1900.

It is very gratifying to be able to say that the Training Colleges have awakened to the necessity of bringing and keeping themselves up to date in the matter of buildings and equipment. The work actually completed, in progress, and in prospect may now be given in detail.

EDINBURGH CHURCH OF SCOTLAND TRAINING COLLEGE.-Nothing has been done to improve the accommodation at Johnstone Terrace, a very dismal building where the female students are taught. The conditions at Chambers Street are much more favourable and satisfactory, but one of the rooms on the ground floor is very badly lighted, and in the large hall upstairs the arrangement for lighting by gas is very ineffective. Electric lighting would be an immense improvement.

In connection with the Chambers Street building, an old Heriot school has been rented in the close neighbourhood, in which a laboratory for the use of male and female students has been provided, and also a dining room and reading room for the male students.

EDINBURGH UNITED FREE CHURCH TRAINING COLLEGE.—As I said in my last report, this college has kept well abreast of the times. Hitherto the students have had the use of a laboratory in the Heriot Watt College. A handsome laboratory is in course of erection as part of the college buildings, and it will doubtless be equipped and furnished in the most excellent fashion.

EDINBURGH EPISCOPAL TRAINING COLLEGE.-Nowhere perhaps has more vigorous effort been shown than in this college in the way of providing accommodation quite up to date.

By carrying backwards the north wing a senior class room has been added to the second floor, and a science room above, access to both being afforded by a corridor which enters from the main staircase.

The science room is fitted up for experimental work in chemistry, physics, and such subjects.

By the above extensions the dormitory accommodation has been increased.

GLASGOW CHURCH OF SCOTLAND TRAINING COLLEGE.-Here two rooms have been removed from the practising school and added to the college. One is used as a laboratory for nature study, the other as a class room.

In the practising school six rooms have been converted into nine by

sliding partitions.

Each room is 600 square feet in area.

GLASGOW U.F.C. TRAINING COLLEGE.-Here a new wing is being United Free built, which will contain :-

1. An art room.

2. Laboratory.

3. Extra class rooms.

4. Special room for needlework.

5. A complete set of students' lavatories.

A covered-in playground is to be fitted up as a manual workroom, to be used when not so required as a retiring or resting room.

A double staircase is to be provided--one for males, one for females.

In the practising school communications are being readjusted, and as soon as they are completed new desks will be supplied.

Church

College.

GLASGOW ROMAN CATHOLIC TRAINING COLLEGE.-A new wing was Roman completed in 1900, containing

1. A practising school, 79 by 29 feet, divided into class rooms
by sliding glass partitions.

2. Class rooms, used chiefly for central classes and pupil teachers.
3. Infirmaries and dormitories for students in college.

A large and commodious kitchen with pantries has been built outside the house on a piece of land at the back.

These additions have enabled the managers to enlarge the lecture rooms and class rooms so as to accommodate comfortably the increased number of students.

This month (March) excellent science rooms have been added, with a laboratory, where 24 to 30 students can work at the same time. A lecture room, with appropriately equipped demonstration table, seats, and desks, has been provided, capable of accommodating about 80 pupils.

I visited the college recently and saw the science and demonstration rooms, which are nearly completed, and also the practising school. The rooms are excellently furnished in every way, and are admirably adapted for the purposes they are intended to serve.

Catholic
Gollege.

ABERDEEN CHURCH OF SCOTLAND TRAINING COLLEGE.-Here one of Aberdeen the college class rooms has been fitted up as a conjoint physical and Church of chemical laboratory, "where," where," as Mr. Ewen says, "instruction is now Scotland being given in practical science to the students in accordance with a College. scheme of instruction specially drawn up for the college." The fitting up and furnishing of this room with the necessary apparatus has cost 2001.

A retiring room for the male students has also been provided. The former junior room is now used for light and shade drawing, while two new rooms built over an archway have been added to the accommodation of the Training College.

The practising school has been completely metamorphosed, and from being one of the dingiest and most hopelessly bad school buildings in the county it has now been very skilfully modernised, with a central hall from which the various rooms find entrance. Practically about eight class rooms have been made for all purposes new. The cost, is about 1,500l.

United Free

Church

College.

Attendance.

ABERDEEN UNITED FREE CHURCH TRAINING COLLEGE.-Here two excellent rooms for chemical and physical work, with a lecture cr demonstration room between them, are approaching completion. This latter room is capable of holding half of all the students in attendance. Temporary arrangements have been made for carrying on both the science and art work. A room in the college has been fitted up as a physical laboratory, where practical classes in science are being carried on under a special scheme of work drawn up for the college. An art master has been appointed to superintend the whole art work of the college and school, and Mr. Ewen states that very satisfactory schemes of work have been drawn up, in accordance with which the instruction is being carried on. The Principal informs me that an entirely new practising school is to be built on a site at present occupied by a building yard, and that the present practising school is to be gutted and fitted up with rooms for drawing, gymnastics, and cookery. This scheme will be proceeded with after the tenant leaves at the May term. The laboratories will be ready in a month from the time of my writing. Some 7,000l. or 8,000l. will be expended in these operations.

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The following table shows the number of the various colleges during the session. 3rd year is inserted the number attending the University for a third session, whose fees are paid by the College Authorities, with the sanction of the Department.

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There were thus in attendance 520 first, 547 second, and 76 third year students, giving a total of 1,143. In 1899 there were 538 first, 484 second, and 51 third year students, or a total of 1,073. There is, therefore, an increase of 70 in the total number of students in training.

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