Student administration/Student registration, Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh

Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh

Student administration

Student registration

Lecturers

Enrolling Clerk

In 1866, Heriot-Watt College had inherited the registration system from its predecessor, the Watt Institution and School of Arts. This consisted of the buying of tickets allowing enrolment into classes. Matriculated students are recorded after 1887, consistently from 1902. Every student who enrolled in a class had to matriculate. This provided the student with a matriculation card that stated the classes being taken and if fees had been paid. Additional slips had to be filled in and passed to the enrolling clerk along with the student's matriculation ticket if the student wanted to enrol on another class. Different matriculation fees were charged depending on whether the student was attending day or evening classes, or whether a number of classes were taken. From 1902, matriculation examinations were introduced as means of admittance to the College. Enrolment into classes by the 1930s proceeded by the student consulting the subject/ class advisor on a particular day and then filing in an enrolment schedule before paying fees. This form of the activity of registration continued until the College became a University in 1966.

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Title of function/activity taken from Elizabeth Parker's Function Activity Model (report compiled for JISC). Function and activity description compiled according to GASHE's Standard for Creating Function and Activity Descriptions.