Editing University of St Andrews (section)

====Dundee====
Until the start of the 20th century, St Andrews offered a traditional education based on classical languages, divinity and philosophical studies, and was slow to embrace more practical fields such as science and medicine that were becoming more popular at other universities. In response to the need for modernisation and in order to increase student numbers and alleviate financial problems, the university had, by 1883, established a university college in [[University College, Dundee|Dundee]] which formally merged with St Andrews in 1897.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Prof. E. Waymouth Reid, F.R.S|first=P. T.|last=Herring|date=11 April 1948|journal=Nature|volume=161|issue=4094|pages=591–592|doi=10.1038/161591a0|bibcode=1948Natur.161..591H|doi-access=free}}</ref> From its inception, the Dundee college had a focus on scientific, and professional subjects; the college's [[co-education|mixed sexes]] read [[Classics]] and  English at St Andrews. The union was fraught with difficulties; in 1894, ''The Educational Times'' reported in the article ''The Quarrel between St Andrews and Dundee'' that University College, Dundee was "forbidden" to give such instruction in the Arts "as he [the Dundeen student] might require".<ref>{{cite news |title=Times Education |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJtAAQAAMAAJ&dq=dundee+university+of+St+andrews+fine+arts&pg=PA30 |access-date=13 January 2021 |publisher=Times Education |page=30 |date=1 January 1894 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412145037/https://books.google.com/books?id=rJtAAQAAMAAJ&dq=dundee+university+of+St+andrews+fine+arts&pg=PA30 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Records of University College, Dundee, being the University of St Andrews in Dundee. |date=1871–1953 |publisher=University of St Andrews |url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/f3a74f1f-988d-33c6-bcd9-4e0870d6e511 |access-date=13 January 2021 |quote=The Commission of 1878 recommended a college be established in Dundee to teach mathematical and physical and natural sciences and medicine, '''leaving the literary part of the Arts faculty to St Andrews'''. The deed of an endowment provided for the erection of a comprehensive 'University College', providing courses for both sexes in a wide variety of subjects except divinity (forbidden by the non-conformist founder) and medicine (which would follow). After 1 October 1897 the college became subject to the academic control of the senate and its teaching staff was appointed by the St Andrews University Court. In an effort to avoid duplication the two Arts chairs (Classics and English) in University College lapsed into lectureships after the professors left in 1895 and 1901 respectively. The other Dundee chairs at this date were Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Natural History, Anatomy and Physiology. A chair in Botany in the University replaced the College chair and teaching was in both Dundee and St Andrews. In 1898 the Conjoint School of Medicine was established at Dundee. |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508144040/https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/f3a74f1f-988d-33c6-bcd9-4e0870d6e511 |url-status=live }}</ref> After the incorporation of University College Dundee, St Andrews' various problems generally receded. For example, it was able to offer medical degrees. Until 1967, many students who obtained a degree from the University of St Andrews had in fact spent most, and sometimes all, of their undergraduate career based in Dundee.

In 1967, the union with Queen's College Dundee (formerly University College Dundee) ended, when it became an independent institution under the name of the [[University of Dundee]]. As a result of this, St Andrews lost its capacity to provide degrees in many areas such as Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Accountancy, and Engineering. As well as losing the right to confer the undergraduate medical degree [[MBChB]], it was also deprived of the right to confer the postgraduate degree MD. St Andrews was eventually able to continue to offer the opportunity to study medicine through a new arrangement with the [[University of Manchester]] in England.

In 1974, the College of St Leonard was reconstituted as a postgraduate institute.<ref name="St leonards college">{{Cite web|title=St leonards college|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pgstudents/stleonards/|access-date=3 January 2013|archive-date=13 December 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121213151127/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/pgstudents/stleonards/|url-status=live}}</ref>