In 1985, ownership passed from the Regional Council to an independent board of governors who received their funds directly from the Scottish Education Department.

During the 1950s and 1960s he was Secretary of the Scottish Education Department.

He was Secretary of the Scottish Education Department from 1885 to 1904.

In 1907, the Scottish Education Department took over responsibility for the school, and it became Edinburgh College of Art.

Grants for their counterparts in Scotland are administered by the Scottish Education Department.

In 1909, the School was designated a Central Institution and brought under the public control of the Scottish Education Department.

New residential building was added in the 1960s and funding came through the Scottish Education Department.

Between 1977-1984, she worked as a special education teacher in the Scottish Education Department.

The Scottish Education Department (SED) therefore decided that teacher training could no longer be left to the churches but must become a national concern.

The Scottish Education Department ran the system centrally, with local authorities running the schools with considerable autonomy.