Talk:Universities in Scotland

Admission

How do you apply/get to a university in Scotland? This BBC article seems to me to imply that you don't sit any entrance test, that you are/aren't admitted depending on your final exams in high school, it this true? --Droigheann (talk) 11:19, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

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Language of Instruction

It would be good if someone with access to the details could explain when and where the language of instruction changed from Latin (as in the rest of Europe) to English. Up to the 17th century and possibly later students could be penalized for using the vernacular. Lectures gradually changed from Latin to English - this may have taken place later in medical than other faculties - and may have depended on the individual professor. I know that in Edinburgh the professor could lecture in Latin in the morning and his assistant might lecture in English (for an additional fee) in the afternoon. In medicine there were also extra-mural lecturers with no university post. In Edinburgh, which had a more international student body, the use of Latin lasted longer than in Glasgow. The change may have been later for examinations, which were originally all oral. Is Gaelic used in the Highlands and Islands? NRPanikker (talk) 15:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)