Education in Cambuslang
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Education in Cambuslang has a long history. There is a range of schooling in Cambuslang, together with a College of Further Education with links to a local University
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[edit] Schools
Primary Schooling in Cambuslang includes- West Coats Primary School, James Aiton Primary School and St Brides Primary School. Secondary Schooling in Cambuslang includes- Cathkin High School and Trinity High School. There is also Uddingston Grammar School only one train stop down on the Motherwell via Bellshill line.
[edit] Colleges
Cambuslang College of the Building Trades, was a specialist college established in the mid-20th Century but it gradually expanded the trades and academic subjects taught. It became Cambuslang College of Further Education in the 1960's. It gradually expanded its provision at its East Kilbride Campus, but retained a substantial annex on Hamilton Road. It renamed itself South Lanarkshire College in 2000 . South Lanarkshire College has links with Bell College , a degree-awarding Higher Education Institution, three miles away in Hamilton, so that local students can progress through HNCs and HNDs to degrees.
[edit] History
There has been a Parish school in Cambuslang at least since the Reformation, and probably before that. The schoolteacher was appointed and paid by the Heritors, though he also charged fees. Free Primary Education came with the Education (Scotland)Act (1871), though there had always been charitable provision.
The original Cambuslang Public School can be seen on Greenlees Road, where it is now Greenlees Care Home. It had been for some time the Cambuslang College of the Building Trades, which became part of Cambuslang College (now ‘’’South Lanarkshire College’’’). An even earlier school is now a Gospel Hall in Bushiehill Street.
The ‘’’Cambuslang Subscription School’’’ of 1848 provided basic education to the children of miners and weavers in return for a few coppers. It was attractive to those who did not like the influence of the gentry and the Minister on the Parish School.
