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Scotland's Rural College (SRUC; Scottish Gaelic: Colaiste Dhùthchail na h-Alba) is a public land based research institution focused on agriculture and life sciences.Its history stretches back to 1899 with the establishment of the West of Scotland Agricultural College and its current organisation came into being through a merger of smaller institutions.
In a joint submission to the latest UK Research Excellence Framework exercise, research at the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) was ranked number one in the UK for agriculture, food and veterinary sciences by combining Times Higher Education’s ratings for each institution. The judgement, based on ...
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland: Glasgow: 1845: Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) Aberdeen, Ayr, Broxburn, Dumfries, and Edinburgh: 2012: Merger of Barony College, Elmwood College, Oatridge Agricultural College and the Scottish Agricultural College [4] [5] The Elmwood Campus in Cupar was transferred to Fife College in 2013. South Lanarkshire ...
St Salvator's College of the University of St Andrews, built in 1450. There are fifteen universities based in Scotland, the Open University, and three other institutions of higher education. [1] [2] The first university in Scotland was St John's College, St Andrews, founded in 1418. [3] St Salvator's College was added to St. Andrews in 1450.
These have now been amalgamated to form Edinburgh College. Scotland's Rural College also has a campus in south Edinburgh. Other institutions include the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh which were established by royal charter in 1506 and 1681 respectively.
Edinburgh College is a primarily publicly funded college. Of the college's £91 million income for the period 2014/15, £68.35 million (75.1%) came from Scottish Funding Council (SFC) grants, £14.52 million came from tuition fees, and the remainder came from a mixture of contracts, endowments, and national and EU grants. [3]
View of King's Buildings from the Braid Hills. The King's Buildings (colloquially known as just King's or KB) is a campus of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.Located in the suburb of Blackford, the site contains most of the schools within the College of Science and Engineering, excepting only the School of Informatics and part of the School of Geosciences, which are located at the ...
The Roslin Institute is an animal sciences research institute at Easter Bush, Midlothian, Scotland, part of the University of Edinburgh, and is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. It is best known for creating Dolly the sheep in 1996, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell.