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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.
Chiefly, though, he was Master and Deputy Principal at St Andrews University, with a spell as Acting Vice-Chancellor. Starting his St Andrews career on a one-year research fellowship in 1966, Professor Vincent climbed the ranks to become Head of School of Chemistry from 1990 until 1996.
St Mary's College. St Mary's College, founded as New College or College of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the home of the Faculty and School of Divinity within the University of St Andrews, in Fife, Scotland.
[1] [2] He held a number of academic administration appointments at St Andrews: he was Deputy Head of the School of History from 1992 to 1998, and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1995 to 1998. [2] In 2007, he left the University of St Andrews to join the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. [1]
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 .
Alumni of the University of St Andrews (2 C, 1,145 P) C. Chancellors of the University of St Andrews (1 C, 38 P) M.
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]
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.