City Guide to Edinburgh, Scotland

City Guide to Edinburgh, Scotland

Education


British Geological Survey

British Geological Survey
Murchison House, West Mains Road
Edinburgh EH9 3LA

Murchison House is the award winning headquarters of the British Geological Survey situated on the King's Campus of Edinburgh University.

Broughton High School

Broughton High School
29 East Fettes Avenue
Edinburgh EH4 1EG

Local authority school sitated beside Inverleith Park and opposite private school Fettes College.

Risk Factory

Risk Factory
20 New Mart Road
Edinburgh EH14 1RL

The Risk Factory is an interactive safety centre that manufactures everyday risks in a safe environment with the goal of teaching people (Primary 7 children, cub scouts, adults with special needs)

Holyrood Park Education Centre

Holyrood Park Education Centre
1 Queens Drive
Edinburgh EH8 8HG

Educational facility and home of the Historic Scotland Ranger service.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
25 Hawthornvale Newhaven
Edinburgh EH6 4JT

Creative workspace with 16 studios including three short let studios and two additional spaces for working on long and short term projects.

Edinburgh School of Food and Wine

Edinburgh School of Food and Wine
The Coach House Newliston
Edinburgh EH29 9EB

Cookery classes some 12 miles from Edinburgh based out of a former 18th century Coach House in the grounds of Newliston House.

Gorgie City Farm

Gorgie City Farm
51 Gorgie Road Gorgie
Edinburgh EH11 2LA

Much-loved working urban farm with lambs, pigs, chickens, quails, and a variety of crops.

School of Informatics

Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
Outside the Informatics building

Edinburgh University's School of Informatics ("the study of how natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate information") is housed in an award-winning, suitably moderni

Leith Academy

Leith Academy
20 Academy Park Leith
Edinburgh EH6 8JQ

A six year high school with 1,000 pupils and over 2,800 part time adults in Leith. The school's origins date back to 1560, although the current school building was built in 1991.

Tollcross Primary School

Tollcross Primary School (community school)
Fountainbridge
Edinburgh EH3 9QG

Central primary school providing classes in English and since 1982 in Gaelic.

City Observatory

City Observatory
Calton Hill
Edinburgh EH7 5AA
Calton Hill Observatory in Winter

The City Observatory on Calton Hill was main centre for astronomers until 1896 when it was decided to move to Blackford, due to light pollution

Royal Observatory

Royal Observatory
Blackford Hill
Edinburgh EH9 3HJ

The main astronomy observatory, in the South of Edinburgh, distinguished by its distinctive copper domes atop Blackford Hill.

Sing For Smiles Vocal School

Sing For Smiles Vocal School
3 Quayside Street
Edinburgh EH6 6EJ

Sing For Smiles Vocal School is a new school for anybody who enjoys singing or would like to learn to sing. We offer a wide variety of classes and tuition for ages 5-105!

Newbattle Abbey College

Newbattle Abbey College
Newbattle Road Dalkeith
Edinburgh EH22 3LL

Scotland’s only adult education residential college, set in the location of a 12th century Cistercian Abbey, to the South-East of Edinburgh in Dalkeith.

Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School

Rudolph Steiner School
60 Spylaw Road
Edinburgh EH10 5BR

Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner follows a "holistic" curriculum for ages from three-and-a-half to 18 years.

Edinburgh College of Art

Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh EH3 9DF
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Edinburgh College of Art has a reputation as one of the leading art colleges in the UK.

Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre

Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre
Glenlockhart Road Edinburgh Napier University
Edinburgh EH14 1DJ

Napier University's egg-shaped lecture theatre in the Craiglockhart campus, home to the university's business school.

Royal High School

Royal High School
East Barnton Avenue
Edinburgh EH4 6JP

The Royal High School can claim to be Edinburgh's oldest school, although it has re-located from its Calton Hill location to Barnton in the North West of Edinburgh, to the North of

Girl Guide Headquarters

Girl Guide Headquarters
33 Melville Street
Edinburgh EH3 7JF

The home of the Girl Guides in Scotland.

Scottish Seabird Centre

The Harbour North Berwick EH39 4SS

Modern wildlife observation and educational building on a rocky outcrop overlooking the windswept, sandy beaches of North Berwick. The charity has interactive cameras, boat trips to nearby island bird sancturies, a gift Shop and Cafe.