Abstract
This article provides a short and accessible account of the whole life-span of The Scottish Council for Research in Education (SRCE), an institution that played a key role in developing educational research in Scotland and setting standards for it. It began through the efforts of many voluntary workers and developed into an organisation operated by professional researchers but governed by a Council representing all aspects of education in the country. Accounts are given of its growth and development, of the policies of each of its six successive directors, of some of its more notable projects, and of some of the factors that contributed to its final decline. The article has drawn on not only published matter but the first-hand knowledge of two “insiders”, J G (Ian) Morris at the Scottish Education Department (SED)’s Research and Intelligence Unit and the present writer at SCRE.
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