Part 7c: Dunfermline
College of Physical Education.
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Carnegie
Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Training opened
in Dunfermline on the 4th October 1905 (staff
pictured here). The Andrew Carnegie Trust founded it as a training
college for women students of Physical Education (students
pictured here). Facilities at first consisted of only a small
gymnasium in Canmore Street Baths. In 1908 the college was opened
to men and in 1909 it was recognised by the Scottish Education
Department as a central institution for the purpose of the Education
(Scotland) Act 1908.
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Between 1913-14 new accommodation were built, and the college was renamed
Dunfermline College of Hygiene and Physical Education. In 1931 the National
Committee for the Training of Teachers delegated the management of the
college to a committee of management and from that date only women students
were trained at DCHPE - the male students being transferred to Jordanhill
College of Education in Glasgow.
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Aberdeen |
Between 1939-46 the staff and students
of the college were temporarily transferred to the Teachers Training
Centre in Aberdeen, its buildings being commandeered by the navy during World
War II. In 1950 the College transferred to Woolmanhill, Aberdeen, due to
over-crowding problems at the Dunfermline site. Hygiene was then dropped
from the name of the college and the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust severed connections
since the College was no longer based in Dunfermline.
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the GASHE website for archive pictures
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Cramond, Edinburgh |
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The first Board of Governors for the College
was established in 1959. In 1966
the College transferred to newly built specialist accommodation at Cramond, Edinburgh.
In 1986 the Secretary of State for Scotland announced that ‘the
training of physical education teachers, both men and women, will
be centralised on the site of the present Dunfermline College of
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In 1987 DCPE merged with Moray House College of Education;
the male students then at Jordanhill College transferred to the enlarged
Moray House at the same time. Five additional academic posts were created
for staff transferring from the Scottish School for Physical Education at
Jordanhill, although by September only three staff had relocated. The combined
expertise provided the core of the Scottish Centre for Physical Education,
Movement and Leisure Studies (SCOPEMALS) at Moray House, Cramond Campus.
Dunfermline
College of Physical Education at Cramond, Edinburgh
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Holyrood, Edinburgh |
On the 1st of August 1998 Moray House Institute of Education together with
its Cramond Campus became the Faculty of Education of the University
of Edinburgh. The University closed the Cramond Campus over the summer
of 2001 and the students, staff and facilities relocated to the refurbished
St Leonard’s Land at Holyrood, part of The Moray House School of
Education of the University.
Memorabilia from Cramond (including
this tapestry) was relocated to St Leonard's Land.
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The
gymnast sculpture by Tom Mackie was created to commemorate
the relocation from Cramond to Holyrood in 2001
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