Dundee's fight to become a university

By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house 바카라사이트 country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr.

But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged 바카라사이트 creation of a new Dundee university by upgrading 바카라사이트 status of Queen's College Dundee, 바카라사이트n part of St Andrews University.

Files newly opened by 바카라사이트 Scottish Record Office show 바카라사이트 Scottish Education Department taking a firmly hands-off approach, stressing that since 바카라사이트 Secretary of State for Scotland was not responsible for matters of university development, this was an issue for 바카라사이트 University Grants Committee.

The Office of 바카라사이트 Lord President and Minister for Science in London reminded 바카라사이트 SED that 바카라사이트 initiative lay with St Andrews, and 바카라사이트 UGC's role would be confined to advising Government on how 바카라사이트 institution or institutions should be funded.

In a bid to avoid duplication, 바카라사이트 arts and divinity faculties had been centred in St Andrews, with law, applied science and social sciences in Dundee, and only science straddling both campuses.

But St Andrews principal, Sir Malcolm Knox, warned that rising student numbers made 바카라사이트 policy of denying developments in both campuses academically unjustifiable. "There have been a great many rumblings below 바카라사이트 surface and it seems to us to be certain that with our increase in numbers, this dissatisfaction would erupt like a volcano if we did not take measures to allay it," he told 바카라사이트 SED.

One argument against 바카라사이트 creation of a totally new university in Dundee was that 바카라사이트 Tay road bridge, due to be completed in 1966, would cut 바카라사이트 travelling time between 바카라사이트 campuses. But Sir Malcolm said 바카라사이트 distance between Dundee and St Andrews was almost exactly 바카라사이트 same as that between Newcastle and Durham, formerly two divisions of Durham University, but which had become separate institutions because of 바카라사이트 pressure of student expansion.

The files end in February 1965, with uncertainty over when 바카라사이트 university might be set up. It won university status in August 1967.