Editing Dundee (section)

== Education ==
{{see also|List of schools in Dundee}}
[[File:Dundee University.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Dundee]]

Dundee is home to two universities and a student population of approximately 20,000.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/registry/main/statistics/14-15_fst_dpt.xlsx |title=Academic Year:2014/5 (Starts 01-August) |access-date=28 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926225005/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/registry/main/statistics/14-15_fst_dpt.xlsx |archive-date=26 September 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abertay.ac.uk/discover/the-university/ |title=The University |date=11 January 2017 |website=abertay.ac.uk |access-date=28 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002143651/http://www.abertay.ac.uk/discover/the-university/ |archive-date=2 October 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[University of Dundee]] became an independent entity in 1967, after 70 years of being incorporated into the [[University of St Andrews]]. It was founded in 1881 by [[Mary Ann Baxter]] and her distant cousin John Boyd Baxter as University College, Dundee, and teaching began in 1883. It fully merged with the University of St Andrews in 1897 and was reorganised as Queen's College, Dundee in 1954.<ref name="Records of the University">{{cite web |title=Records of the University of Dundee and its Predecessors |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/source-history.htm#Uni |work=Archival Sources for Local and Scottish History |publisher=[[University of Dundee]] |access-date=27 April 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808121954/http://www.dundee.ac.uk/archives/source-history.htm |archive-date=8 August 2011 }}</ref><ref name="A Dundee Celebration">{{cite book |last=Baxter |first=Kenneth |title=A Dundee Celebration |year=2007 |publisher=[[University of Dundee]] |location=Dundee |display-authors=etal }}</ref> Significant research in [[biomedical]] fields is carried out in the [[School of Life Sciences (University of Dundee)|School of Life Sciences]].<ref name="College of Life Sciences">{{Cite web |url=http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181212043705/http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/ |url-status=dead |title=School of Life Sciences |archive-date=12 December 2018 |access-date=22 October 2021 }}</ref> The university is also home to [[Dundee Law School]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.scottishlegal.com/2016/05/24/law-at-dundee-takes-top-spot-in-guardian-university-guide-2017/ |location=Dundee |work=Scottish Legal News |title=Law |date=12 September 2016 |access-date=3 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005105715/http://www.scottishlegal.com/2016/05/24/law-at-dundee-takes-top-spot-in-guardian-university-guide-2017/ |archive-date=5 October 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref> situated in the Scrymgeour Building on the main campus and the [[University of Dundee School of Medicine|School of Medicine]], based at the city's [[Ninewells Hospital]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/table/2011/may/17/university-guide-medicine |location=London |work=The Guardian |title=Medicine |date=17 May 2011 |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510215122/https://www.theguardian.com/education/table/2011/may/17/university-guide-medicine |archive-date=10 May 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> The university also incorporates the [[Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design]] and the teacher training college.

[[Abertay University]] was founded as Dundee Institute of Technology in 1888. Previously, the buildings formed Bell Street Technical College, a further education college. It was granted university status in 1994 under the [[Further and Higher Education Act, 1992]]. The university is noted for its computing and creative technology courses, particularly in the fields of [[computer games]] technology and [[Computer security|cyber-security]].<ref name="money for computer games centre">{{harvnb|money for computer games centre }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=16 December 2019 |title=£5.5m gaming and cyber-security centre opens |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-50808198 |access-date=19 May 2020 |archive-date=28 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528131910/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-50808198 |url-status=live }}</ref> Notable alumni include [[David Jones (video game developer)|David Jones]], founder of DMA Design (now known as [[Rockstar North]]), Sir [[Brian Souter]], founder of [[Stagecoach Group|Stagecoach]], and Lord [[Iain McNicol]], former [[General Secretary of the Labour Party]].

[[Dundee College]] is the city's umbrella [[further education]] college, which was established in 1985 as an institution of higher education and vocational training. As of 2013, it merged with [[Angus College]] in [[Arbroath]], to become [[Dundee and Angus College]] (D&A college). The Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education was established in Dundee in Blackness Road in 2002. It is a research-led institution of higher education which are currently offering programmes accredited by [[Scottish Qualifications Authority|SQA]] in the study of [[Islam]] and [[Muslim]]s, Arabic language and Islamic Economics and Finance. It is an independent institution. It is named after its patron, [[Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum]].<ref>{{harvnb|Al-Maktoum Institute }}</ref>

[[File:Moragn Academy Dundee.jpg|thumb|left|Morgan Academy Dundee]]
Schools in Dundee have a pupil enrolment of over 20,300. There are 37 primary state schools and 8 secondary state schools in the city. There are 11 primary and 2 secondary Roman Catholic denominational schools which, as in the rest of Scotland, are open to children of all denominations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/parentzone/myschool/choosingaschool/denominationaleducation/index.asp |title=Denominational education – Choosing a school - |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |access-date=1 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161210034630/http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/parentzone/myschool/choosingaschool/denominationaleducation/index.asp |archive-date=10 December 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The remainder are non-denominational.<ref>{{harvnb|Primary Schools}}; {{harvnb|Secondary Schools }}</ref> There is also one specialist school that caters for pupils with learning difficulties aged between five and 18 from Dundee and the surrounding area.<ref>{{harvnb|Kingspark School }}</ref>

Dundee has one independent school, the [[High School of Dundee]], which was founded in the 13th century by the [[Abbot]] and [[monk]]s of [[Lindores Abbey]].<ref>{{harvnb|Strong|1909|p=19 }}</ref> The current building was designed by George Angus in a Greek Revival style and built in 1832–34.<ref>{{harvnb|Colvin|2008|p=xx }}</ref> Notable students in the early modern period included [[Thomas Thomson (chemist)|Thomas Thomson]], [[Hector Boece]],<ref>{{harvnb|Kerr|1913|p=13 }}</ref> and the brothers [[James, John and Robert Wedderburn]] who were the authors of ''[[The Gude and Godlie Ballatis]]'', used early in the [[Scottish Reformation]] as a vehicle to spread Protestant theology.<ref>{{harvnb|Dawson|2007|p=159 }}</ref> According to [[Blind Harry]]'s largely apocryphal work ''[[The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace]]'', [[William Wallace]] was also educated in Dundee.