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Adam Smith College was a Scottish further and higher education college located over various campuses across the county of Fife. On 1 August 2013 Adam Smith College and Carnegie College came together to form Fife College, creating a new college for the region in line with Government legislation.
Kirkcaldy Campus, St Brycedale Avenue, Kirkcaldy, KY1 1EX. Kirkcaldy campus is ideally located within a five-minute of both the town’s train station and bus station. This is an easy campus to get to by active travel or public transport, without having to rely on driving.
In 1751, Smith earned a professorship at Glasgow University teaching logic courses, and in 1752, he was elected a member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, having been introduced to the society by Lord Kames. When the head of Moral Philosophy in Glasgow died the next year, Smith took over the position. [28]
Jun 15, 2024 · Adam Smith received his elementary education at a two-room “burgh” school in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, before entering Glasgow College at age 14 in 1737. Graduating in 1740, Smith won a scholarship (the Snell Exhibition) to study at Balliol College, Oxford , which he attended for six years.
- Adam Smith was the son by the second marriage of Adam Smith, the comptroller of customs at Kirkcaldy, Scotland, a small (population 1,500) but thri...
- Returning to his home in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, in 1746 after six years of study at Oxford, Adam Smith cast about for suitable employment and through...
- Adam Smith is known primarily for a single work—An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), the first comprehensive syst...
Glenrothes Campus is home to students studying a wide range of courses, including creative media, engineering, science and care. It is located in the south of Glenrothes on Stenton Road, and is easily accessible by foot, bike, or bus from the town centre.
Fife College was created on 1 August 2013 as a merger of Adam Smith College, Carnegie College and non land based elements of the Elmwood Campus of the rural college SRUC. When the merger was announced in March of that year the new principal was named as Hugh Logan, formerly principal of Motherwell College. [4]
