Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
College Hall, within the 16th-century St Mary's College building. In 1410, a group of Augustinian clergy, driven from the University of Paris by the Avignon schism and from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish Wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, offering courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law.
The Principal of the University of St Andrews is the chief executive of the University and is assisted in that role by several key officers. The Principal is analogous to a Vice-chancellor in England or a President of an American university. [16] [2]
The newer University of Dundee also elects a Rector due to its historical ties to St Andrews, whereas other modern universities do not. [ 2 ] Since 1970 the Rector has appointed a student as Rector's Assessor, who is a full voting member of the University Court, and also serves as a member of the students' representative council .
The University of St Andrews Act 1952 created the Principal as a separate office, to be appointed by the Monarch of the United Kingdom. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The power to appoint the Principal is vested in the University Court by Schedule 2 of the Universities (Scotland) Act 1966 .
Phillips Payson O'Brien (born 1963) is an American historian and professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.He was formerly at the University of Glasgow where he ran the Scottish Centre for War Studies.
A group of St Andrews figures, including J. M. Barrie and Douglas Haig, at the 1922 rectorial installation. This list of alumni of the University of St Andrews includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
The membership of the general council is governed by ordinance No. 96 of the University of St Andrews and is as follows:- "The chancellor., all graduates of the University (including honorary graduates) and holders of the Licentiateship in Dental Surgery, members and former members of the University Court, Professors and former Professors of the University, Readers and Lecturers who have been ...
The University of St Andrews Students' Association is the organisation which represents the student body of the University of St Andrews. [7] It was founded in 1885 and comprises the students' representative council [8] and the Student Activities Forum (formerly the Students' Services Council).