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A substitute for St. Andrews
The history of this college is very curious, it was founded in 1881, and at that time it was an extension of the University of St. Andrews, the oldest and most prestigious in all Universities in Scotland. Officially, it has functioned as an independent university since 1967. It has several specialties like business, accounting and medicine, and so has grown in popularity and fame. However, in history it struggles to have a name, even with the addition of Fiona Watson a few years ago, it still not the best. Its Achilles heel is and will be languages, where the disaster is complete (and this I know for a fact), especially and sadly in Spanish, which has as its head of department a lawyer (common sense?).
Professionalism leaves much to be desired, if we compare the department with their counterparts in other universities, where almost all are linguists or philologists, but yet they boast of their uselessness, something inexplicable in current times. The university is in the city center, mixing classic style buildings with modernist designs, this makes it an interesting place as you walk through the area. Especially the buildings of the medical school, Scrymgeour, Dalhousie and the Tower. At least, from an architectural point of view it is worth it, but not from an academic perspective. As I have pointed out, this only affects some departments and it is not good to generalize.
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