Student administration/Student registration, Glasgow School of Art

Glasgow School of Art formerly Glasgow Government School of Design

Student administration

Student registration

Secretary and Treasurer

Registrar

Registration at the School was initially known as enrolment. It was compulsory for students both at Glasgow Government School of Design under the Board of Trade and at Glasgow School of Art under the Department of Science and Art to enrol, although records only survive from 1881.

One feature of the Department of Science and Art's regime was the system of 'payment on results' which began at the School in 1863 and lasted until 1896. This system removed fixed-point salaries for teachers and replaced them with performance related pay. In order to make a claim for payment on results a general register had to be kept recording the names of students enroling at the School which either had to be sent to the Department of Science and Art or had to be inspected by one of the Department's inspectors.

Two different types of registration album were kept: alphabetical and numerical. The numerical registers, ordered according to registration number, were known as general registers up until 1901 and after that student registers. They were kept until 1946. Information recorded in them includes name of student, address, age, type of student, details of classes and, until 1901, the student's signature. The alphabetical registers contain less information and do not include signatures. There is a gap of details of students registering between 1950 and 1960.

In 1901 the School was designated a Scottish Central Institution under the Scottish Education Department. Governance under this Department was less rigid than before and the School was able to develop in a more independent way and did not immediately establish a definitive set of regulations for enrolment at the School.

The School's calendar for 1937 states that before beginning work at the School, students were required to complete an enrolment form in duplicate and pay a matriculation fee.

Since 1993 the School's degrees have been accredited by Glasgow University and from that time all students of the School have been required to register at the beginning of each year of study and in doing so have to sign an undertaking to abide by the rules and regulations of the School and to observe the regulations and requirements of Glasgow University.

Alphabetical registers of students 1881-1987 Ref: GB 1694 GSAA REG 2
 

General registers of students 1889-1946 Ref: GB 1694 GSAA REG 3
 

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.