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The School of Further Education (SFE, later known as the Scottish School of Further Education) was established at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, in 1966. It was the exclusive, national provider of basic, in-service training for further education teachers, leading to the award of a Teaching Qualification (Further Education) and entitlement to registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. A purpose-built facility for the SFE was opened on the Jordanhill campus in 1973, incorporating a library, offices and audio-visual support as well as an interconnecting multi-storey hostel to accommodate students during the residential blocks of their course.

The Teaching Qualification (Further Education) course, which initially had three intakes each year, was of the ’sandwich’ type, consisting of two 8-week (later 10-week) blocks of full-time attendance at the SFE and two terms of supervised teaching practice in the trainee teachers’ own further education colleges in between. The course fees and subsistence costs were covered by the students’ employers. In 1986, the TQ(FE) course was revised and extended over five consecutive terms, each term incorporating a period of full-time attendance at the SPE. The revised course, which had two intakes per year, now included 276 hours of distance teaching/learning activities and 24 hours of tutorial visits to students at their place of employment. In 1994, the course was rewritten in terms of competencies and restructured for a modular pattern of delivery.

From session 1973-1974, the SPE also offered basic training courses for teachers of nursing, midwifery and other professions supplementary to medicine, and ran short courses and conferences to meet specific needs among further education staff. In 1988, with the agreement of the Scottish Education Department, the Governors of Jordanhill College changed the SPE’s name to the Scottish School of Further Education (SSPE).

In 1989, the SSPE introduced a flexible programme of modular, credit-bearing courses for continuing staff development in further education, leading to the award of certificates, diplomas and degrees in ‘Post School Education Studies.’ The Curriculum Advice and Support Team (CAST), set up at Jordanhill College of Education in 1985, was assimilated into the SSFE in 1987.

In 1993, Jordanhill College merged with the University of Strathclyde to become Strathclyde’s Faculty of Education. The Jordanhill campus was retained by the University, and the SSPE remained there as a distinct department of the Faculty of Education for the next ten years. In 2003, a restructuring of the Faculty of Education into five large departments saw the SSPE subsumed into the new Department of Educational and Professional Studies with effect from 1 August that year.

The Directors of the SFE/SSFE were William M. T. Mason (1966-1970), Dennis R. Griffiths (1970-1972), James Stark (1972-1983), Stuart M. Niven (1983-1997), David Taylor (1997- 1999), Ian J. Finlay (Head of Department, 1999-2001) and Anne E. Nicolson (Acting Head of Department, 2001-2002).

Glenda White trained as a primary school teacher and worked in four primary schools in England and Scotland before moving into the field of teacher training. During the 1970s and early 1980s she lectured at Callander Park College of Education and Jordanhill College of Education, where she was Senior Lecturer in Primary Education. She then joined Her Majesty’s Inspectorate in 1985, inspecting pre-five, primary and secondary schools in the West of Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway. She moved on to become Chief Inspector of the Quality Assurance Unit at Strathclyde Regional Council in 1990, then Head of School Development for South Lanarkshire Council before taking early retirement. She subsequently became acting-headteacher of a ‘failing’ school and worked as an independent educational consultant, evaluating and advising schools and education authorities on aspects of quality assurance, management and the curriculum. Having fully retired from paid employment, she completed a doctoral thesis at the University of the West of Scotland on the life and work of the Scottish educationist, David Stow. Glenda White is presently an Honorary Teaching Fellow of the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Strathclyde.

An independent, international academy founded in 1982 with the mission to advance knowledge of occupational and environmental health, prevent disease and save lives.

Maggie Sutherland was born in Glasgow on 18th October 1881. She graduated from the University of Glasgow where she was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science (1908) and Doctor of Science (1914). Sutherland was an Asssociate of the Institute of Chemistry (AIC) becoming Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry (FIC) around 1920.

Sutherland was appointed at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow as lecturer in chemistry in 1913; and lecturer in inorganic chemistry in 1935 until she resigned in 1947.

Charles Edward Donovan was an evening student in 1956-1957 on the Glasgow School of Management Studies Management Diploma Course, which was jointly run by the Scottish College of Commerce and the Royal College of Science and Technology. He obtained certificates in Economics, Human Relations and Psychology, Introduction to Management Principles, Analysis Techniques, Job Evaluation, Merit Rating and Incentives, and Work Measurement.

Donovan started a career in personnel at Rolls Royce in Glasgow. He moved to British Airways in 1958 and, in 1966, moved to the gas industry. In 1977, he was appointed Director of Industrial Relations at British Gas and, in 1981, Member for Personnel of the British Gas Corporation.

Toni (Antonia) Bunch was born on 13 February 1937 in Croydon, Surrey, England, to Harold and Helen Bunch (nee Wilson). Having missed out on going to university when she left school, she took an alternative route to qualify for her chosen profession. After completing correspondence courses and attending classes at Ealing Technical College, she sat and passed the Library Association’s Associateship (ALA) examination in 1960 and subsequently worked in Scotland, spending most of her career in Edinburgh, where she specialised in medical librarianship.

From 1962-1965, Toni was employed as Assistant Librarian at the Scottish Office in Edinburgh. In 1965, she was appointed as Librarian at the Scottish Health Service Centre, where she remained until 1981, establishing its library as a national resource centre for information on all aspects of healthcare management and planning. Whilst working full-time, she completed a research thesis entitled ‘Hospital and medical libraries in Scotland: an historical and sociological study’, which she successfully submitted for the Fellowship of the Library Association (FLA) in 1973 and later published as an article in Scottish Library Studies 3 (1975).

Toni went on to register as a part-time research student at the University of Strathclyde in 1974, graduating in 1976 with the degree of Master of Arts for her thesis entitled ‘Health care administration: an information sourcebook’. The thesis was published by Capital Planning Information in 1979.

From August 1981 until 1986, Toni was employed as a Lecturer in the Department of Librarianship (known from 1985 as the Department of Information Science) at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She also enrolled as a part-time PhD student there in January 1982. The topic of her doctoral research was Scottish medical and scientific book collectors to the end of the eighteenth century, which she described as being a logical progression from the research undertaken for her FLA thesis in the early 1970s. In March 1987, however, she abandoned her doctoral studies without completing or submitting a thesis. That same year, she was appointed as Director of the newly created Scottish Science Library at the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, remaining in post until her retirement at the age of 59. She latterly lived in the village of Garvald, East Lothian, and died, aged 86 on 21 March 2023.

Toni was a Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, receiving its Jason Farradane Award in 1990; a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (a new body created when the Library Association merged with the Institute of Information Scientists in 2002); a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a Council member of the Scottish Society for the History of Medicine. During her career, she served on several national and international committees concerned with librarianship and information science. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1996.

Fernanda Giannasi was a driving force in the campaign to have asbestos banned in Brazil. She is a Civil and Occupational Safety Engineer and was a Labor Inspector for 30 years at the Brazilian Labor Ministry. She founded the GIA-Grupo Interinstitutional of Asbestos and was manager of the State Program for the Banning of Asbestos. Fernanda founded the Brazilian Association of People Exposed to Asbestos (ABREA) and was one of the creators of the CONTREN-National Commission of the Workers on Nuclear Energy.

She is currently a health, labour and environmental consultant for workers' organizations and victims of industrial disease. She also coordinates the Virtual-Citizen Network for the Banning of Asbestos for Latin America and is a member of the Brazilian Environmental Justice Network. Fernanda is part of the Italian Academy of Sciences of the World (Collegium Ramazzini), which awarded her the Ramazzini Prize in 2018.

Fernanda has received a number of awards in recognition of her work including the Occupational Health of the American Public Health Association (APHA) in Chicago, 1999; 'Outstanding Citizen' award by the National Progressist Entrepreneurs Basis (PBNE), 2001; the title of “Anti-Asbestos G-Woman in Tokyo in 2004; commendations from the Order of Judicial Merit of Labor from the TST-Superior Labor Court (2014) and the TRT-Regional Labor Court (2015); the FazDiferença (Makes the Difference) Prize from the prestigious Newspaper “O Globo, 2017; and the Rachel LEE Jung-Lim Award in 2017 in South Korea.

David Paterson was born and brought up in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, where his father was Secretary of the local Labour Party and Provost of Clydebank. Paterson attended Clydebank High School, where he was School Captain, then enrolled for a four-year Associateship course in Economics at the Scottish College of Commerce (SCC), Glasgow, in 1961. Having joined the Labour Party as a young teenager, he was active in student politics. He served as Vice-President (Internal Affairs) of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) in the lead-up to the SCC’s merger with the Royal College of Science and Technology to form the University of Strathclyde. Following the merger, Paterson completed his fourth and final year of study (session 1964-1965) at Strathclyde, where he was also Joint Vice-President (Internal Affairs) of the SRC. He graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Economics in 1965, then moved to London and worked in industry for several years. In session 1970-1971, he returned to education, taking a Masters degree in Social Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He subsequently became a trade union official and was elected as Deputy General Secretary of the Banking, Insurance and Finance Union (BIFU) and Vice-President of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1993.

Brian Furman has been Emeritus Professor at the University of Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences from 2008. He was head of the Department of Pharmacology from 1994 until 2000 and held the position of Professor in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences from 2004 until 2008.

John Booth Davies was Director of the Centre for Applied Social Psychology at the University of Strathclyde from 1998 until 2011.

Gustav Jahoda established the Department of Psychology at the University of Strathclyde in 1963 and was Professor of Psychology from 1964 until 1985, before becoming Emeritus Professor.

Professor John Paul was one of the founders of the bioengineering unit at the University of Strathclyde and was head of the unit from 1977 until 1992. He was a pioneer of hip joint replacement technology. He was president of the International Society of Biomechanics from 1987 until 1990 and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Sir Thomas Martin Devine was head of the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde before becoming Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 1992 until 1993. He served as Deputy Principal of the University from 1994 until 1998. He was knighted in 2014. He has held the position of University Research Professor in Scottish History and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) at the University of Aberdeen, as well as holding the position of Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh.