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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).

James Stirling Boyd was born on 9 September 1874 in the parish of Newbattle, Edinburgh to Thomas Boyd, a joiner, and his wife Jane (nee Stirling). James initially entered his father's trade, but had higher ambitions. As a 21-year-old apprentice joiner, he enrolled at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (GWSTC), where he pursued evening studies from session 1895-1896 to session 1899-1900. Having taken classes in Building Construction, Architecture, and Architectural Drawing, supplemented by a summer course in Mathematics in session 1902-1903, Boyd gained the GWSTC Course Certificate in Architecture and the GWSTC Course Certificate in Building Construction in 1904.

On 4 August 1899, while still an evening student, Boyd married Catherine Jane Grant, a dressmaker, in Paisley. By this time, he had completed his apprenticeship and was working as a journeyman joiner in Paisley. The couple went on to have two daughters, Catherine, born in 1900, and Jane, born in 1904.

Shortly after his marriage, Boyd became an Assistant Lecturer in Building Construction at Paisley Technical College. On 7 June 1901, he was appointed as Assistant (later Lecturer and Chief Assistant) to Charles Gourlay, Professor of Architecture and Building Construction at the GWSTC. There, Boyd's responsibilities included lecturing on courses in Carpentry and Joinery, Masonry, Brickwork and Building Construction, History of Architecture, Constructive and Historical Design, and Architectural Descriptive Geometry, as well as delivering special courses of lectures on Stereotomy.

Whilst employed at the GWSTC, Boyd spent his summers measuring and sketching the architectural features of various churches in Scotland and England. In 1909, he also spent eight weeks studying and photographing Renaissance architecture in London, at Hampton Court, in Paris and at Versailles. In 1910, he was elected as a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA), with Gourlay acting as one of his proposers.

During World War I, Boyd served as an Inspector for the Admiralty. In September 1917, the Chairman’s Committee of the Royal Technical College (RTC, formerly known as the GWSTC) considered his position, noting that ‘Mr. Boyd is acting as an Inspector under the Admiralty, and his services are not available to the College except for evening work. It is recommended that payments to him for the current financial year in respect of salary shall bring his total income from the Admiralty and from the College up to £250, provided that the payments from the College shall not exceed £100.'

Boyd resigned from the RTC in September 1918 and subsequently moved to England where he practiced as an architect in Sidcup, Kent. He later lived at 5 Wallace Road, Bath, and at 84 Hill Crescent, Bexley, Kent.

Studio Swain, a photography studio listed at 332 Argyle Street Glasgow and also listed at 32-34 York Street, Glasgow.

Known to his family as 'Scott', William Sutherland Milligan was born to Joseph and Isabella Milligan on 25 February 1897 in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended Eastbank Higher Grade Public School in Shettleston, where he gained the Intermediate Certificate in 1912. He progressed to evening classes in Business Methods Course I, Book-Keeping and Accounting Course II, and Commercial Arithmetic Course II at the Glasgow Athenaeum Commercial College in session 1913-1914. His studies were then interrupted by the First World War, during which he served as an officer with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After the war, Milligan returned to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College (as it was known from 1915), where he attended special day classes in Income Tax and Book-Keeping Course III during the summer of 1919. He subsequently emigrated to the United States of America, arriving in New York on the vessel 'Cedric' on 26 December 1922. There he worked as an accountant, and met his future wife, Mildred Amelia McLaughlin, when he went to audit the books of the power plant owned by her father. The couple married in Austin, Texas on 8 October 1923 and set up home in Kansas City, Missouri. Soon afterwards, in September 1924, Milligan earned the status of CPA [Certified Public Accountant]. In 1937, his employers transferred him to Europe, and he and his wife lived successively in Holland, Finland and in Copenhagen, Denmark. When Copenhagen was invaded during World War II, the Milligans left for London, where they remained for the duration of the war. William worked for a British Government rubber control agency which distributed rubber among the Allies, while Mildred volunteered with the Red Cross and drove ambulances. The couple returned to Austin, Texas in 1948, and two years later William was appointed Treasurer of the Highfield Estate in Falmouth, Massachussetts, owned by his brother-in-law. William Milligan died on 8 January 1959 and is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. There is also a headstone for him in Austin, Texas.