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THE Royal Technical College, Glasgow, reviews, in its report on the work of the session 1935-36, its own progress since its constitution in 1886 by the amalgamation of Anderson's College with a number of other separate institutions. In these fifty years, the number of its day students has increased from 124 to 1,001 and its gross income from £9,248 to £81,837. Among its more important developments during that time are the establishment of departments of architecture, textile manufacture, navigation, sugar manufacture, pharmacy and bakery, and the erection and equipment of new buildings at a cost of £400,000. Its counterpart in Edinburgh, the Heriot-Watt College, has far fewer day students (364) but its evening class students (2,460) are nearly as many as those of the R.T.C. Both colleges co-operate with city and county education committees in regard to the provision in continuation schools of courses preparatory to college courses. The Edinburgh college, however, records a serious falling off in the number of students from city continuation schools, and attributes this decline to lack of interest on the part of employers.
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Scottish Technical Colleges. Nature 139, 581 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139581b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139581b0