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AS announced in our columns last year (September 24, 1903), the formal foundation of the Duchess of Sutherland's Technical School at Golspie was inaugurated on September 8, 1903, by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, at that time Secretary for Scotland. The building is, we are informed, now completed, the total cost of erection and equipment having exceeded 16,000l., exclusive of the site and grounds given by the Duke of Sutherland. The school is a handsome structure in white freestone, and three storeys in height. It contains altogether fifty-six rooms, including fourteen class-rooms, workshops, laboratories, museum, &c. The dormitories are 50 feet by 21 feet, with bathrooms and lavatories attached. The school when full can receive sixty pupils. The curriculum covers a period of three years, and the subjects comprised are such as are most likely to meet local industrial requirements, the whole course being framed on a sound scientific basis. In drafting the original scheme the duchess had the cooperation of Prof. R. Meldola, Prof. Magnus Maclean, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, and Mr. Struthers, of the Scotch Education Department. A formal deed has been executed by the duchess ensuring the perpetuity of the school, and appointing for its management a local board of governors, the duchess herself being chairman and the duke a member of this board. An advisory committee has also been appointed consisting of leading educationists and representatives of Highland societies, as well as Her Grace's original advisers.
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The Duchess of Sutherland's School at Golspie . Nature 70, 571 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070571b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/070571b0