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ENCOURAGED by the success which has attended the work of her sister, the Countess of Warwick, at Bigods, near Dunmow, in Essex, the Duchess of Sutherland has boldly entered upon a scheme for providing a technical school in a still more remote rural district, viz. near Golspie, on their Dunrobin estate in Sutherlandshire. No provision for secondary and technical education in the Scotch Highlands at present exists, and the proposed school must meet a long-felt want. The draft scheme which has been drawn up by the Duchess with the cooperation of Prof. Meldola provides for the education of fifty pupils in the principles of those sciences which bear in any way upon the local industries, including agriculture. The pupils will be taken from the oelementary schools and admitted only when fully qualified to take advantage of the secondary training offered by the Sutherland school. In view of the excellent ocharacter of the elementary teaching in the Scotch schools, there should be no difficulty in finding a constant supply of promising pupils, the more especially as the new school is intended for board and residence and caters for the four counties of Sutherland, Ross, Cromarty and Caithness. Like Bigods, the Sutherland technical school is to be mixed and the curriculum adapted to the requirements of boys and girls; As stated in the scheme:—
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Technical Schools for Rural Districts . Nature 65, 106 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065106a0
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