Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Scottish Education Department
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Scotch Education Department
- Scottish Office Education Department
- Scottish Office Education and Industry Department
- SED
- SOED
- SOEID
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1872-1999
History
The Scottish Education Department (SED) came into being as the body responsible for schooling in Scotland when it was formed from the Church of Scotland's Board of Education for Scotland in 1872.
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 made education compulsory and took over the running of schools from the Church of Scotland. Burgh as well as parish schools now came under School Boards run by local committees. It was originally called the Scotch Education Department, was a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, and had its offices in London. In 1885 the department became a responsibility of the new ministerial post of Secretary for Scotland, under whom the Scottish Office was set up in Dover House, Whitehall, London.
In 1918 the department was moved to Edinburgh and the name was changed to the Scottish Education Department, in accordance with Scottish usage. The Secretary for Scotland became the Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926. The department was renamed the Scottish Office Education Department (SOED) in 1991, and the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department (SOEID) in 1995.
With devolution in 1999 the new Scottish Executive set up the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) to oversee school education whilst the Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department – now Enterprise Transport and Lifelong Learning Department (ETLLD) – took over responsibility from the former SED for further and higher education.
Places
London | England
Edinburgh |Scotland
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Education directorate for Scotland
Mandates/sources of authority
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Maintained by
Institution identifier
GB 1847
Rules and/or conventions used
ISAAR(CPF): International Standard Archival Authority Records for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2003); Rules for the construction of personal, place and corporate names, National Council on Archives (1997).
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Created by Kirsty Menzies, Project Archivist, 19 January 2018.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Education Directorates, Wikipedia [ONLINE] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Directorates [Accessed 19 January 2018].