 The introduction of free state education and comprehensive schools, and the decline in the attractiveness of work in the Civil Service resulted in the decline and eventual closure of all Skerry’s Colleges in the UK.Voluntary Liquidation was completed by 3 June 1970.In 1878 Skerry's College, Edinburgh, was founded mainly preparing candidates for Civil Service examinations, they also ran preliminary classes for university exams and also involved in distance learning as a correspondence college.