University celebrates its most famous alumnus

Two hundred and seventy five years after Adam Smith first joined the University of Glasgow as a fourteen-year-old student, the "Father of Modern Economics" has had a School at the University named in his honour. The renamed Adam Smith Business School was originally established in 1986 and today is the second largest business school in the UK with 110 academics and over 3,600 underand post-graduate students. The School enjoys a worldwide reputation attracting over 1,600 international students from 54 countries. To mark the occasion of the launch, the University will hold a ceremony at 7pm on Wednesday 6 February in the University's Bute Hall. Guest of honour will be Mike Russell the Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, who will deliver a lecture entitled: "Enlightened Imagination - Scotland's Contribution to a Better World". Mr Russell's lecture will celebrate the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment and its continued relevance to Scottish education, finishing on the issue of constitutional change and the opportunities for Scotland. Adam Smith attended the University of Glasgow as a student between 1737 and 1740, and returned as Professor of Logic in 1751.