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The University of Glasgow
Latin: Universitas Glasguensis
Motto: Latin: Via, veritas, vita
Motto in English: "The Way, the Truth and the Life"
Established: 1451
Type: Public university/Ancient university
Endowment: £133 million[1]
Chancellor: Prof. Sir Kenneth Calman
Rector: Rt Hon. Charles Kennedy
Principal: Sir Muir Russell
Staff: 5,807[2]
Students: 23,590[3]
Undergraduates: 18,810[3]
Postgraduates: 4,785[3]
Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Colours: Graduate
                         

Master of Theology (MTh)

                             

Dentistry

                   

Nursing

                   
Affiliations: Russell Group, Universitas 21, IRUN, Association of Commonwealth Universities
Website: http://www.gla.ac.uk
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The University of Glasgow (Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Ghlaschu) was founded in 1451, in Glasgow, Scotland, and, along with its contemporary institutions, the University of St Andrews and the University of Aberdeen, it formed the Kingdom of Scotland's equivalent to Oxbridge. One of Scotland's ancient universities, the fourth oldest in the English-speaking world, the University of Glasgow is one of only seventeen British higher education institutions to be ranked amongst the top 100 universities of the world.[4][5]

Originally founded by a papal bull issued by Pope Nicholas V, it is now independently ranked as amongst the top ten universities in the UK for teaching quality. Glasgow is highly regarded as a centre for educational excellence, ranking as a top 20 university in various tables,[6] and rated third in the UK for student experience. In addition to this, it was also the Sunday Times "Scottish University of the Year" in 2007.[7] Glasgow is a current member of the Russell Group, as well as of Universitas 21.

The University's main campus is located on Gilmorehill, in the West End of Glasgow. The University also has a number of buildings elsewhere in the city; a facility at Loch Lomond; and the Crichton Campus in Dumfries, which is jointly operated alongside a number of other institutions.

Contents

History

The East Quadrangle of the Gilbert Scott building.

The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 by a papal bull of Pope Nicholas V, at the suggestion of King James II, giving Bishop William Turnbull permission to add the university to the city's cathedral.[8] Its founding came about as a result of King James II's wish that Scotland have two Universities to equal Oxford and Cambridge of England. It is the second oldest university in Scotland (the oldest being the 1410-founded University of St Andrews), and the fourth oldest in the English-speaking world. The Universities of St Andrews, Glasgow and Aberdeen are ecclesiastical foundations, while Edinburgh was a civic foundation.

The University has been without its original Bull, issued by Pope Nicholas V in 1451, since the mid-sixteenth century. In 1560, during the political unrest accompanying the Scottish Reformation, the then chancellor, Archbishop James Beaton, a supporter of the Marian cause, fled to France taking with him for safe-keeping many of the archives and valuables of the Cathedral and the University, including the Mace and the Bull. Although the Mace was sent back in 1590 the archives were not. Principal Dr James Fall told the Parliamentary Commissioners of Visitation on 28 August 1690, that he had seen the Bull at the Scots College in Paris, together with the many charters granted to the University by the Kings and Queens of Scotland from James II to Queen Mary. The University enquired of these documents in 1738 but was informed by Thomas Innes and the superiors of the Scots College, that the original records of the foundation of the University were not now to be found. If they had not been lost by this time they certainly went astray during the French Revolution when the Scots College was itself under threat and its records and valuables were moved for safe-keeping out of the city of Paris. Nevertheless, the Bull remains the authority by which the University awards degrees.

The view over the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum from the University of Glasgow tower

Glasgow has enjoyed a (usually friendly) rivalry with the University of St Andrews since its creation, and with the University of Edinburgh since the foundation of the latter in 1583. Of all the universities and tertiary education establishments in Scotland, only Glasgow offers a complete range of professional studies including law, medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, and engineering, combined with a comprehensive range of academic studies including science, social science, ancient and modern languages, literature, theology and history.

Teaching at the University began in the chapterhouse of Glasgow Cathedral, subsequently moving to nearby Rottenrow, in a building known as the "Auld Pedagogy". The University was given 13 acres (53,000 m2) of land belonging to the Black Friars (Dominicans) on High Street by Mary, Queen of Scots in 1563.[9] By the late 17th century, the University building centred on two courtyards surrounded by walled gardens, with a clock tower which was one of the notable features of Glasgow's skyline, and a chapel adapted from the church of the former Dominican (Blackfriars) friary. This complex was one of the finest Renaissance buildings in Scotland, and its demolition, following the transferral of the University to its present site in 1871 (in less "rough" surroundings) was one of the worst acts of cultural vandalism in 19th century Scotland. Remnants of this Scottish Renaissance building, mainly parts of the main facade, were transferred to the Gilmorehill campus and renamed as the "Pearce Lodge". The "Lion and Unicorn" was also transferred from the old college site.

John Anderson, while professor of natural philosophy at the university and with some opposition from his colleagues, pioneered vocational education for working men and women during the industrial revolution. To continue this work in his will he founded Anderson's College, which was associated with the university before merging with other institutions to become Strathclyde University.

Reputation

The Gilbert Scott Building, viewed from Kelvingrove Park

The University's teaching quality was recently assessed to be among the top 10 in the United Kingdom, along with its reputation as a "research powerhouse", whose income from annual research contracts also placing among the top 10 the UK, generating a total income of over £362,000,000 per year.[10] The most recent Independent Good University Guide places Glasgow as second in Scotland, and one of only two Scottish universities in the UK's top 20.

Glasgow has the fourth largest financial endowment among UK universities at £133m,[1] and the fifth largest endowment per student, according to the Sutton Trust, with investment in facilities of over £150 million in the last 5 years.[11]

According to The Guardian University Guide 2009[12] and The Complete University Guide 2009,[13] Glasgow University is ranked amongst the top 20 universities in the UK. In the most recent Times Higher Education World rankings of universities, Glasgow is among only a handful of UK universities in the top 100, placed at 11th in the UK and 73rd in the World.

The University is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities[14] and was a founding member of the organisation Universitas 21,[15] an international grouping of universities dedicated to setting world-wide standards for higher education. The university currently has fifteen Regius Professorships, nearly twice the number held by the next nearest, Oxford.

The Hunterian Museum, from University Avenue

The University has recently published its "Building on Excellence" strategy for 2006-2010. The University's strategic plan sets out the ambition to be one of the best universities in the world. The University aims to be recognised as one of the UK's top 10 universities and as one of the world's top 50 research-intensive universities.[16]

As of February 2007, the University had almost 19,000 undergraduate and 5,000 postgraduate students.[3] Glasgow has a large (for the UK) proportion of "home" students, with over 40 per cent of the student body coming from the West of Scotland, an additional 39 per cent from elsewhere in the UK, leaving 16 per cent from elsewhere in the world.[17] More recently the University has started to attract more overseas students, particularly from Asia.[citation needed] There are 6,000 staff, of whom 3,400 are researchers, bringing in £130M of research income (2006-7). Twenty-three subject areas, and 96 per cent of staff were awarded 5 or 5* ratings in the most recent 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.[18]

The most recent rankings from Times Higher Education, compiled by QS, place Glasgow in the top 75 Worldwide for Arts, Humanities, Biological Sciences, and Social Sciences.[19] On top of this, recent statistics also show Glasgow to be among the top 10 in the UK for both entry standards, as well as the percentage of students who go on to gain first or upper second class honours degrees.[20]

The University is ranked equal 102nd by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities. In 2008, it was ranked in 73rd place in the Top 100 universities in the THE - QS World University Rankings 2008.[21]

Facilities

The University's library houses over two million volumes.

The University's initial accommodation was part of the complex of religious buildings in the precincts of Glasgow Cathedral. In 1460 the University received a grant of land from James, Lord Hamilton, on the east side of the High Street, immediately north of the Blackfriars Church, on which it had its home for the next four hundred years. In the mid-seventeenth century, the Hamilton Building was replaced with a very grand two-court building with a decorated west front facing the High Street, called the "Nova Erectio" or New Building. Over the following centuries, the University's size and scope continued to expand, including Scotland's first public museum, the Hunterian. It was a centre of the Scottish Enlightenment and subsequently of the industrial revolution, and its expansion in the High Street was constrained. The area around the University declined as well off residents moved westwards with expansion of the city and overcrowding of the immediate area by less well off residents. It was this rapid slumming of the area that was a chief catalyst of the University's migration westward.

Consequently in 1870, it moved to a (then greenfield) site on Gilmorehill in the West End of the city - around three miles west of its prior location - enclosed by a large meander of the River Kelvin. Its new-build campus was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style. The largest of these buildings (now called the Gilbert Scott Building) echoed, on a far grander scale, the original High Street campus's twin quadrangle layout. Between the two quadrangles Scott's son Oldrid built an open undercroft, above which is his grand Bute Hall (used for examinations and graduation ceremonies), and the buildings' signature gothic bell tower. The blond sandstone cladding and Gothic design of the buildings' exterior belie the modernity of its Victorian construction — Scott's building is structured upon what was then a cutting-edge riveted iron frame construction, supporting a lightweight wooden-beam roof. The building also forms the second-largest example of Gothic revival architecture in Britain, after the Palace of Westminster.[citation needed] An illustration of the Gilbert Scott Building currently features on the reverse side of the current series of £100 notes issued by the Clydesdale Bank.[22]

Even these enlarged premises could not contain the University, which quickly spread across much of Gilmorehill. The 1930s saw the construction of the award-winning round Reading Room (it is now a grade-A listed building) and an aggressive programme of house purchases, in which the University (fearing the surrounding district of Hillhead was running out of suitable building land) acquired several terraces of Victorian houses and joined them together internally.[citation needed] The departments of Psychology and most of the Arts Faculty continue to be housed in these terraces.

More buildings were built beside the main buildings, developing the land between University Avenue and the river with natural science buildings and the faculty of medicine. The medical school spread into neighbouring Partick and joined with the Western General Infirmary. The growth and prosperity of the city, which had originally forced the University's relocation to Hillhead, again proved problematic when more real estate was required. The school of veterinary medicine, which was founded in 1862, moved to a new campus in the leafy surrounds of Garscube Estate on the edge of the city in 1954. The university later moved its sports ground and associated facilities to Anniesland (around two miles west of the main campus) and built student halls of residence in both Anniesland and Maryhill.

The growth of tertiary education, as a result of the Robbins Report in the 1960s, led the University to build numerous modern buildings across the hill, including several brutalist concrete blocks: the Mathematics building; the Boyd Orr building (a squat grey concrete tower housing lecture rooms and laboratories named after university graduate and Nobel Peace Prize winner John Boyd Orr); and the Adam Smith building (housing the social science faculty, named after university graduate Adam Smith). Other additions around this time, including the glass-lined library tower and the amber-brick geology building, were more in keeping with Gilmorehill's leafy suburban architecture.[citation needed] The erection of these buildings around 1968 also involved the demolition of a large number of houses in Ashton Road, and rerouting the west end of University Avenue to its current position.

The University's Hunterian Museum resides in the Gilbert Scott Building, and the related Hunterian Gallery is housed in buildings adjacent to the University Library.[23] The latter includes "The Mackintosh House", a rebuilt terraced house designed by, and furnished after, architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The University opened a campus in the town of Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway. The Crichton campus, designed to meet the needs for tertiary education in an area far from major concentrations of population, is jointly operated by the University of Glasgow, the University of Paisley, Bell College, and the Open University. It offers a modular undergraduate curriculum, leading to one of a small number of liberal arts degrees, as well as providing the regions only access to postgraduate study.[24]

In October 2001 the century-old Bower Building (previously home to the university's botany department) was gutted by fire. The interior and roof of the building were largely destroyed, although the main facade remained intact. After a £10.8 million refit, the building re-opened to staff and students in November 2004. The Wolfson Medical School Building, with its award-winning glass-fronted atrium, opened in 2002.[25]

The University Library, situated opposite the main building, is regarded as one of the best academic libraries in Europe,[citation needed] with the number of books alone topping two million. Situated over 12 floors, it also houses sections for periodicals, microfilms, special collections and rare materials, some of which are exhibited on the top floor. [10] In addition to the main library, subject libraries also exist for Chemistry, Dental Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Education, and the faculty of Social Sciences, which are held in branch libraries around the campus.[26] In 2007, a state of the art section to house the library's collection of historic photographs was opened, funded by the Wolfson Foundation.[26]

The Archives of the University of Glasgow are the central place of deposit for the records of the University, created and accumulated since its foundation in 1451.

The University is currently spread over a number of different campuses. The main one is the Gilmorehill campus, in Hillhead. As well as this there is the Veterinary School at the top of Maryhill Road, on the Garscube Estate. The University also operates a Dental School in the city centre, as well as the aforementioned Crichton campus in Dumfries, and in 2003 they opened their new Education Faculty Building (the St Andrews Building, replacing Bearsden's St Andrews Campus) in the Woodlands area of the city on the site of the former Queens College, which had in turn been bought by Glasgow Caledonian University, from whom the university acquired the site. The University has also established joint departments with the Glasgow School of Art and in naval architecture with the University of Strathclyde.

As well as these teaching campuses the University has halls of residence in and around the North-West of the city, accommodating a total of approximately 3,500 students.[27] They have the Murano Street halls in Maryhill; the Wolfson halls, also in Maryhill, on the Garscube Estate; Queen Margaret halls, in Kelvinside; Cairncross House and Kelvinhaugh Gate, in Yorkhill. In recent years, Dalrymple and Horslethill halls in Dowanhill, Reith halls in North Kelvinside and the Maclay halls in Park Circus (near Kelvingrove Park), have closed and been sold, as the development value of such property increased.

The University also has a large sports complex at the Garscube Estate, beside their Wolfson Halls and Vet School. This is a new facility. They sold their previous sports ground (Westerlands) which was in the Anniesland area of Glasgow. The university also has a boathouse situated at Glasgow Green on the River Clyde. It is out of here that the Glasgow University Boat Club trains.

Governance and administration

Eastern section of the Gilbert Scott building.
Further information: Ancient university governance in Scotland

In common with the other ancient universities of Scotland the University's constitution is laid out in the Universities (Scotland) Acts. These Acts create a tripartite structure of bodies: the University Court (governing body), the Academic Senate (academic affairs) and the General Council (advisory). There is also a clear separation between governance and executive administration.

The University's constitution, academic regulations, and appointments are authoritatively described in the University calendar,[28] while other aspects of its story and constitution are detailed in a separate "history" document.[29]

University Court

The governing body of the University is the University Court, which is responsible for contractual matters, employing staff, and all other matters relating to finance and administration. The Court takes decisions about the deployment of resources as well as formulating strategic plans for the university. The Court is chaired by the Rector, who is elected by all the matriculated students at the University.

Academic Senate

The Academic Senate (or University Senate) is the body which is responsible for the management of academic affairs, and the awarding of all degrees. The Senate consists of various academics and is chaired by the Principal of the University.

Committees

There are also a number of committees of both the Court and Senate that make important decisions and investigate matters referred to them. As well as these bodies there is a General Council made up of the university graduates that is involved in the running of the University. The graduates also elect the Chancellor of the University. A largely honorific post, the current Chancellor is Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, former Chief Medical Officer and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Durham.

Executive administration

Day to day management of the University is undertaken by the University Principal (who is also Vice-Chancellor) and the Secretary of Court. The current principal is Sir Muir Russell who replaced Professor Sir Graeme Davies in October 2003. The current secretary of Court is David Newall.[30]

There are also several Vice-Principals, each with a specific remit. They, along with the Clerk of Senate, play a major role in the day to day management of the University.

Faculties

The Department of History building occupies what were former townhouses on University Avenue.

There are currently nine faculties at Glasgow University. They are:

  • Arts
  • Biomedical & Life sciences
  • Education (formed when the University merged with St Andrews College of Education)
  • Engineering
  • Information and Mathematical Sciences
  • Law, Business & Social Sciences
  • Medicine (including Dentistry and Nursing)
  • Physical Sciences
  • Veterinary Medicine

The Veterinary School is perhaps one of Glasgow's most famous faculties, having produced the personalities of James Herriot (aka Alf Wight), Eddie Straiton ("The TV Vet"), Sir William Weipers, among many others and has the distinction of having its degree recognised not only by the UK, but also the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, as well as most other countries in the world.[citation needed]

The Medical School is also one of Glasgow's greatest strengths. Considered one of the top schools in the UK,[citation needed] it placed first in The Times's 2004 ranking of UK university medical departments. Notable medical graduates and Professors of the Medical School include Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, former Chief Medical Officer, now Chancellor of the University of Glasgow; Professor David Barlow , Executive Dean of the Glasgow University Faculty of Medicine, one of the UK's leading authorities on reproductive medicine and osteoporosis and was Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology at the University of Oxford; and the Professor Sir Abraham Goldberg, Emeritus Regius Professor of the Practice of Medicine.

Notable alumni and staff

Adam Smith
Further information: List of Alumni and Faculty of the University of Glasgow and List of Professorships at the University of Glasgow

There is a long list of famous scholars and alumni associated with the University, amongst them are six Nobel laureates. Famous names include Regina Ip, Lord Kelvin, Adam Smith, James Watt, John Logie Baird, Sam Karunaratne, Colin Maclaurin, John Toland, Joseph Black, John Boyd Orr, Francis Hutcheson and Joseph Lister.

In more recent times, the University has one of Europe's largest collection of life scientists, as well as being the training ground of numerous politicians, including Donald Dewar, Charles Kennedy, Dr Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

Students

The West End Festival now forms a major annual cultural event in and around the environs of the University campus.

Unlike other universities in Scotland, Glasgow does not have a single students' association. Instead, representation and welfare services are provided by the Students' Representative Council and students may also join one of two students' unions which provide other services.[31]

Neither of the University's students' unions are affiliated to the National Union of Students: membership has been rejected on a number of occasions, most recently in November 2006, on both economic and political grounds.[32] Neither does the representative body take the form of a Students' Association, as it does at other Scottish universities. However, every student is automatically represented by the Glasgow University Students' Representative Council (SRC) and has the right to stand for election to this body and elect its members. The President of the SRC, along with one other SRC member, the Court Assessor, sit on the University Court and a number of SRC members sit on the Academic Senate (which also has the responsibility of overseeing student discipline). Each student has the right to opt out of being an SRC member, although this rarely happens.

Rector

Further information: Rector of the University of Glasgow and List of elections for Rector of the University of Glasgow

Students also elect a Rector (officially styled "Lord Rector") who holds office for a three year term and is legally entitled to chair the University Court. This position is in practice largely an honorary and ceremonial one, and has been held by political figures including William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, Andrew Bonar Law, Robert Peel, Raymond Poincaré, Arthur Balfour, and 1970s union activist Jimmy Reid, and latterly by celebrities such as TV presenters Arthur Montford and Johnny Ball, musician Pat Kane, and actors Richard Wilson, Ross Kemp and Greg Hemphill. In the past, few Rectors have actually been present to perform the duties of their office, although in recent years there has been a trend to elect people on the expectation that they will be working rectors. Ross Kemp was asked to resign by the SRC (which he did) for what they felt was a failure to act as a working rector. In 2004, for the first time in its history, the University was left without a Rector as no nominations were received. When the elections were run in December, Mordechai Vanunu was chosen for the post,[33] even though he was unable to attend due to restrictions placed upon him by the Israeli government. The current rector of the University, elected on 28 February 2008, is Charles Kennedy, the former leader of the Liberal Democrat party and University of Glasgow alumnus.

Student unions and representation

The Glasgow University Union's building at the bottom of University Avenue.

In addition to the Students' Representative Council, students are commonly members of one of the University's two students' unions, Glasgow University Union (GUU) and the Queen Margaret Union (QMU).[34]

Historically the GUU was all-male, and the QMU was for female students. These are largely social and cultural institutions, providing their members with facilities for debating, dining, recreation, socialising, and drinking, and both have a number of meeting rooms available for rental to members. Postgraduate students, mature students and staff can also join the Hetherington Research Club.[35]

Glasgow has led the UK's university debating culture since 1953.[citation needed] In 1955, the GUU won the Observer Mace, now the John Smith Memorial Mace, named after the deceased GUU debater and former leader of the British Labour Party. The GUU has since won the Mace debating championship fourteen more times, more than any other university. The GUU has also won the World Universities Debating Championships five times, more than any other university or club in the series' history.[36]

Sporting affairs are regulated by the Glasgow University Sports Association (GUSA) (previously the Glasgow University Athletics Club) who work closely with the Sport and Recreation Service. There are a large number of varied clubs, who regularly compete in BUSA competitions. Students who join one of the sports clubs affiliated with the university, such as Glasgow University Boat Club, Glasgow University Rugby Football Club, Glasgow Tigers American Football Team, Glasgow University Shinty Club, and the Glasgow University Canoe Club, must also join GUSA.

Student clubs and societies

The University has an eclectic body of clubs and societies, ranging from the Glasgow University Penguin Society to the Anthropological Film Society. The Glasgow University Engineering Society was once presided over by Percy Pilcher, giving it the claim to fame of having been the birthplace of controlled glider flight.

Media

There is an active student media scene at the University, part of, but editorially independent from, the SRC. There is a newspaper, the Glasgow University Guardian;[37], Glasgow University Magazine;[38], Glasgow University Student Television;[39] and Subcity Radio.[40] In recent years, independent of the SRC, the Queen Margaret Union has published a fortnightly magazine, qmunicate,[41] and Glasgow University Union has produced the GUUi.[42]

List of Chancellors

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin memorial, University of Glasgow

List of Principals and Vice-Chancellors

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