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www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com GLASGOW TALKS
Historic bond drives new venture between town and gown
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lasgow’s economic success and prosperity is inextricably linked to the University of Glasgow. That bond will be
enhanced as the university presses on with its £1 billion programme of investment that will be a beacon for learning and international research, while opening up a new campus area that will be connected to the vibrant West End communities bordered by the River Clyde, Dumbarton Road, Great Western Road and Kelvingrove Park. Professors Sir Anton Muscatelli and Neal Juster gave a fascinating insight into this significant programme at Glasgow Talks, supported by Clydesdale Bank and the Adam Smith Business School.
More than 100 people, gathered in the University’s Senate Room, were told that the Gilmorehill Campus Development project, on the site of the former hospital, approved by Glasgow City Council in 2014, is the most significant development by the university since the expansion in the 1960s, and it mirrors the audacious Victorian project which took the university out of the city centre. When the university moved to Gilmorehill in the 1870s from High Street, it made a daring statement of intent in moving to a greenfield
site near the borough of Partick. The neo-Gothic towers and buildings by Gilbert Scott on University Avenue, which are synonymous with the ancient place of learning, cost the equivalent of 40 times the income of its day. Such was Glasgow’s civic pride in its ancient seat of learning that 55 per cent of the funds came from private donations, many from individuals and small business donors in Glasgow.
Professor Muscatelli, the university’s Principal and Vice Chancellor, told the audience that world-class universities have emerged as an essential aspect of the regeneration of major cities. He cited Harvard University and MIT in Boston, and the universities in Pittsburgh, as catalysts for ‘Med and Ed’, where medical schools and higher educational research establishments work together. He said Glasgow’s future depended on
Professors Neal Juster and Sir Anton Muscatelli with Stuart Patrick, Glasgow Chamber Chief Executive
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