The Scottish Leaving Certificate was established in 1888 by
Henry Craik, permanent secretary of the
Scottish Education Department
The Scottish Government Education Directorates were a group of the civil service
The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional t ...
.
It was replaced, in 1962, by the
Scottish Certificate of Education as an educational qualification. One primary distinction between the Scottish Leaving Certificate and the Scottish Certificate of Education was that the latter had less strict regulations in terms of compulsory subjects and workload of the individual curricula.
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History of education in Scotland
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Educational qualifications in Scotland
School examinations
Secondary school qualifications
1888 establishments in Scotland
1888 in politics
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History of education in Scotland
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